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Originally Posted by rwthomas1
So what pray tell do any of you suggest we feed the billions of people on the Earth with? If not fish then what? Every solution has a nasty side effect. Beef is great until you realize that to produce it has nasty environmental effects as well. And lets not talk vegetarian, I'd rather put a gun to my head. The reality, the elephant in the room, is population control and the lack of it. I refuse to get excited about any solution until that is confronted. End of story. All the US law doesn't stop foreign countries from fishing until there is nothing left so whats the point. You will never get an international consensus on the topic except possibly worldwide "no fish" zones to allow the marine populations to recover. Enforcing that alone will be very, very difficult. RT
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That's part of the point. If we continue to overfish, soon there will be a shortage of fish to feed that burgeoning population.
I like eating meat and fish but I can get by doing it only once or twice a week. Plenty of people get by on that sort of regimen and it's probably better for you than eating meat every day.
Methods for producing beef, chicken, eggs, etc. that are less taxing on the environment than mega factory farms are in existance, we just need to find the will to make them more widespread and to pay a little extra for our food.
Increasing profit and/or reducing price by any and every means possible does not necessarily bode well for the viability of the resources that produce that profit.
We're liable to kill the goose that lays the golden egg if we chase that profit too hard.