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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.

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Norway Farmed Salmon Industry Accused of “Food Colonialism” in New Report

DeSmogBlog

In sub-Saharan Africa, 62 percent of children under five lack essential micronutrients – such as iron, zinc, and vitamin A – and consume just 38 percent of their recommended seafood intake. percent of seafood produced by the global aquaculture industry. Despite this heavy reliance on wild-caught fish, salmon only makes up 4.5

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Alphabet moonshot Tidal heralds the age of precision aquaculture

Business Green

About 17 per cent of the animal protein consumed by humans comes from fish, crustaceans and mollusks, and about three billion people depend on wild-caught and farmed seafood as their primary source of protein. Demand for sea creatures such as tuna, salmon and shrimp grew 3.2 in a recent report.

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How Fishmeal Factories Put Food Out of Reach for Communities in The Gambia

DeSmogBlog

In the report – which surveyed village officials, tourism workers, fishmeal factory employees, and local fish workers, among others – researchers documented that since the arrival of the factories in 2016, fish had jumped in price, fish-smokers and dryers had lost work, and widespread pollution was damaging local ecology and tourism.

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Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

Grist

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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Louisiana LNG Could Be ‘Nail in the Coffin’ for Local Fishermen

DeSmogBlog

Even in a state famous for its seafood, Cameron once stood out. A few decades ago, Cameron was the largest producer of seafood in the entire country, hauling in hundreds of millions of pounds of fish, shrimp, and oysters each year. In 2016, the U.S. Even his great-grandson is getting into the family trade. They want you gone.

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

In alternative proteins, we look at fungal-based, algae-based, and of course seafood businesses. The initial investment was made towards the end of 2016. Got his start at the Mayo clinic cultivating tissue for human transplant, human organ replacement and then really saw an opportunity to leverage that in the food industry.