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Mickey Z
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Yet another man-made disaster
If anyone is still unconvinced that the animal/death industry brings destruction wherever it exists, I suggest you check out the article below:
“Tsunamis, Mangroves and the Market Economy”
by Devinder Sharma
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Sharma0111.htm
Since the 1980s, the Asian seacoast region has been plundered by the large industrialized shrimp firms that brought environmentally-unfriendly aquaculture to its sea shores. Shrimp cultivation, rising to over 8 billion tonnes a year in the year 2000, had already played havoc with the fragile eco-systems. The “rape-and-run” industry, as the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) once termed it, was largely funded by the World Bank. Nearly 72 per cent of the shrimp farming is confined to Asia.
The expansion of shrimp farming was at the cost of tropical mangroves—amongst the world’s most important ecosystems. Each acre of mangrove forest destroyed results in an estimated 676 pounds loss in marine harvest. Mangrove swamps have been nature’s protection for the coastal regions from the large waves.
More on mangroves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove
P.S. Go vegan…
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