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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics Group, be compensated for their losses, that the polluted area be restored, and that those who have been jailed for protesting be released.

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

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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

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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. Spike Johnson.

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An apple a day keeps the carbon away: Analysis of UK diet advice reveals emissions-saving potential

Business Green

The government guidelines were first published in 2016. "Further adherence to the guidelines would not only result in population health benefits, but is also associated with lower environmental footprint due to reduced greenhouse gas emission.".

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Cancer Alley Pastor Finds Hope Amidst the Rubble When Facing Ida’s Aftermath

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Pastor Murphy told me on a call after he returned to the church for the first time since he evacuated before the storm that he and his wife were stunned when they found the only part of the church not harmed was the sanctuary where the Concerned Citizens of St John the Baptist, a community group, started meeting in late 2016.