Blood fish: why prawns should be blacklisted from your shopping basket

Blood fish: why prawns should be blacklisted from all our shopping baskets

Blood fish: why prawns should be blacklisted from your shopping basket

Evidence had emerged of the vast destruction of ecologically important mangrove forests, chopped down to make way for prawn farms, leaving coastal communities increasingly vulnerable to rising sea levels and tsunami. Shrimp cultivation ponds were also blamed for poisoning the water supplies of local people with harmful pesticides and antibiotics, and polluting agricultural land with salt water and waste. The arrival of industrial prawn farms – frequently producing fish for export markets – was also accompanied by violence and intimidation. Local people who protested against the building of prawn ponds in their backyards often found themselves targeted by hired thugs working on behalf of the shrimp industry. Researchers uncovered a catalogue of human rights abuses connected to the prawn gold rush, including violent attacks, rape, arson and even murder. I reported on a parti...

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RT @ImaTigerrr: @Hephaestus7 @mmaher70 Like dangerous exploitation inUK gov enabled gang masters,seems prawn industry uses slave labour [link]
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@climateblues » 08 Oct '12, 1pm
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Shrimp harvesting [link]
@JungleJaneBuzz » 27 Sep '12, 6am
Ugh, report on awful human rights abuses in prawn fishing. [link]
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@EAC_SeaMouse » 24 Sep '12, 7pm
"Grinding Nemo"- Why most shrimp at the grocery store is V. BAD NEWS: [link] #labour #bycatch #fisheries #aquaculture
@Irishwildlife » 24 Sep '12, 2pm
Report from the Ecologist highlights social &environmental costs associated with SE Asian shrimps/prawns in our shops [link]
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@JasperKenter » 23 Sep '12, 8am
Brutal exploitation to supply #trashfish to prawn industry in Thailand [link]
@AlexStonell » 22 Sep '12, 5am
Can any large scale commercial fishing be sustainable? #fishfight [link]
@Moggsay » 21 Sep '12, 12pm
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@svensegal » 21 Sep '12, 8am
Oh dear, my poor spoilt taste buds will have to learn to live without prawns [link] via @the_ecologist
@PersonalEscrito » 21 Sep '12, 8am
No Brasil, testemunhei em primeira mão o impacto da criação de camarões sobre as comunidades costeiras. [link]
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Blood fish: why you should think twice before tucking into that prawn curry [link]
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Terrifying reading - please forward [link]
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Eat local ! Trash fish to feed prawns ..argh...RT @misspurpleann: Horrific! Enjoying your sushi??? [link]
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