LOOK at this !

A biologist has calculated that the tiny little shrimp maybe the most costly animal you can eat when measured in terms of its negative impact on the environment. According to a new paper from J. Boone Kaufman, of Oregon State University, one pound of frozen shrimp adds one ton of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere — more than 10 times that produced by the equivalent amount of beef raised on cleared rainforest land. It seems that most of the world's farmed shrimp is produced on coastal farms in Southeast Asia that were created by destroying mangrove forests. In addition to the loss of the trees — which are particularly great at eating carbon dioxide and protect the fragile coastlines — the farms are usually abandoned with 10 years, due to "disease, soil acidification and contamination" and leave the land unusable for another 40 years. So if you have a problem with factory farming of pigs and cows, they apparently have nothing on the carbon footprint of the humble shrimp. Just one more awful thing to think about the next time you order the surf-and-turf.

http://news.yahoo.com/shrimp-cocktail-ruining-planet-120218941.html

Let's get some World Enforcement on this ~ There must be some farming regulations.. We can't just stop eaing !! Today the Shrimp... Tomorrow the veggies with Malorganite (Human waste for fertilizer) !!


NDY

Thanks for the link NDY

What do you think about this song?

On comments below song it had this-(I liked her back in HS when I had this album and like her now despite her misguided 60s "activism." They did put away the DDT and now there is a malaria epidemic in Africa and things like the West Nile virus in the US as a result. Those eco-freaks were morons -- should have just stuck to love songs where they couldn't do any damage to humanity.)


WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK?

I agree with the song-YET have heard that the removal of DDT HAS caused problems-so have mixed feelings about that. Do agree that paradise is being paved TOO MUCH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94bdMSCdw20&feature=related

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees (please!)

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Late last night the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man away

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot (3x)

That song makes me sad each time I hear it. It reminds me of the time when my BEE (best-ever-ex ) got in his car & drove away ! "You don't know what you've got till it's gone. "

We need to examine a recourse to using extreme toxic chemicals. Anything that kills nature will eventually kill you - You ARE nature too !!

We need also to examine the need for progression in our cities & beyond making conscious decisions about natural reserves, preserving historical sites & attractions,

Let's consider at what future costs we are promoting fossil fuels..We can't afford to ruin the planet we are on. We need to think of our grandchildren's futures.

If we kill our AIR & WATER - WE ARE KILLING OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURES AS WELL AS OUR OWN.

NDY