About those sardines. Grist's food writer, Twilight Greenaway also wrote about the Mother Jones article on sardine overfishing. Put the blame for potential sardine overfishing on Australian salmon farms and conventionally-raised chickens, she says, because sardines and other forage fish are used as feed for industrial animal production.
Which takes us back to Leeann's comment about industrial food production of any sort. We already know that farmed salmon are bad, right?! Not to mention battery cage broilers.
So better we eat sardines than use them as animal fodder. I'd say we should still tread lightly until we're sure forage fisheries aren't being over exploited, by health conscious foodies or by industrial agriculture.
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