Research on Aquatic Farmed Animal Welfare Is Pitifully Limited
modernfarmer.com
There is a fundamental tendency of humans to identify more with the animals that are more like us. This is why the welfare of a dog rates higher, for most people, than the welfare of an insect. We can understand a dog; we have no idea what’s going on in a bug’s mind. In recent years, animal welfare has become more of a focus of livestock production and marketing: Just look at the plethora of labels promising cage-free, pasture-raised, antibiotic-free, vegetarian-fed and all sorts of other welfare-based wonders. Yet that doesn’t extend to marine life. A new study from researchers

Of the 408 farmed species around the world, found the researchers, only 84 had any research papers written about their welfare. Only 25 species had five or more papers published about their welfare.

Anyone not eat aquatic food for environmental reasons? Farmed food seems to be poorly treated and fresh ones continue to leave huge amounts of plastic waste in our waters and can decimate entire environments.

  • TriSimic
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    4 years ago

    There’s a big issue around farmed salmon here in the UK. You’re not doing yourself (or the planet) any favours eating any meat which was farmed in such conditions - chicken, salmon, anything else. It’s a question of time, I think, before another virus gets the better of humans by spreading through a farmed organism of its choice, whose immunity to infection is usually pitiful unless it’s drowning in antibiotics.