As long as they don’t start feeding them ham. This is how crises start. Next thing you know we’ll be hearing about “Mad Pig’s Disease”.
Anchovies have been used in making feed pellets for trout rearing farms for decades. Left over fish market fish have been used for chicken feed or fertilizer for centuries.
Seems like the same end result, if the pigs and chickens are consumed by humans.....
Hmmm... let’s see. Fish nobody wants to eat are turned into food for fish people do want to eat.
What’s the problem again?
Nobody in their right mind would eat menhaden (bunker) without serious processing. It's not really edible. It makes great fertilizer, margarine and animal feed, though.
The author of this article doesn't know what they are talking about, clearly.
Oh, puhleeze. These 'staff writers' need to untwist their panties and take a valium.
What the hell difference does it make if the end product is human food anyway?
Besides, my guess is most of what is used for animal feed is not suitable for human consumption anyway.
how is this being wasted?
arina de pesca is the only industry many third world coastal towns have
Inside each alarming story from the chronically concerned lies this theme:
“”Human beings are not the only, or necessarily, the most important consumer of these fish. Whatever people take out of the sea needs to be carefully calibrated to ensure that sufficient fish are left to sustain populations of other fish, seabirds and marine mammals which all play a major role in the healthy functioning of the world’s oceans.””
The problem as these alarmists see it is that there are simply too many humans or humans themselves are harmful to the planet and its pristine waters.
Their Eden would have Adam born gay , content to frolic about the garden all day and play with himself at night while the animals lay nearby.
There’s always one core problem with the “this should be fed to people” argument: people don’t like it. If people liked this feed fish that much it would be fed to people because they’d be buying it for themselves rather than their farm. People aren’t buying it for themselves because it tastes nasty, give it to farm animal. It’s a perfectly workable system, take low end unpleasant tasting cheap fish and turn it into high pleasant tasting pork and chicken, it’s an all natural process.
Their next move will be to call for the Mr. Wu (of ‘Deadwood’ fame) method of hog feeding.
one-third of the world's marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry... disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans... "Forage fish" include anchovies, sardines, menhaden, and other small- to medium-sized fish species which are the primary food for ocean-dwelling marine mammals, seabirds (especially puffins and gulls) and several large fishes. Currently, catches of forage fish are predominantly used in animal feed, but these species are highly nutritious and well-suited for direct human consumption.Soylent Green is people!