By Pem Charnley •
December 18, 2007
We send out fishermen in all weathers to the North Sea – a brutal piece of water that is freezing and ravaged by storms - and we demand they come back with nets heaving with our favourite fish.
Cod.
To supply our favourite dish. Cod and chips.
It’s time for a rethink. We’re gorging on creatures that can’t breed fast enough to keep up with governmental ineptitude.
Fish stocks around the British Isles are approaching extinction. European Union (EU) legislation is crazy.
According to the USDA's annual statistics survey, 10 billion animals are killed for human consumption every year in the United States. (Worldwide, I believe it’s 45 billion.) However, it is more accurate to say that “10 billion land animals are killed for human consumption every year"; otherwise, we’re disregarding the billions of aquatic animals killed for the same purpose – to satisfy human appetites. Although the number of aquatic animals killed for consumption in
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