Watch What's The Catch with Matthew Evans (Know Your Seafood)

LFrozenFred on 26/06/2018 - 22:15
Last edited 26/06/2018 - 22:42

Just watching this on TV and it's just devastating.

Well even if it's Australian caught seafood the waste that goes on is there, but as an ozbargainer I've bought heaps of dumplings etc from Thailand.

This will open your eyes if you've never thought about where and how we get our seafood and at what lengths for a cheap tasty feed.

Watch What's The Catch With Evans on SBS On Demand.

Episode 1:
"Prawns are one of Australia’s most popular seafoods, yet few of us know the real cost of how they are produced. In this episode Matthew travels to Thailand to see for himself how our desire for cheap prawns is destroying the oceans, before returning to Australia to press for better labelling on all our seafood so that consumers are involved in safeguarding our seafood for years to come."

http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/whats-the-catch-with-…

Cheers

Food & Grocery

Comments

  • Diji1 on 26/06/2018 - 23:33
    +1

    Apparently there is also a massive problem with species substitution as well.

    • mskeggs on 27/06/2018 - 09:35

      I thought my prawn looked a bit chicken-y!

  • adgnetworks on 27/06/2018 - 01:02
    +3

    Maybe someone can snap their fingers and half the human population disappears.

    • fantombloo on 27/06/2018 - 02:01

      Or maybe everyone with a brain just stop consuming other animals and increase the efficiency of our consumption by an order of magnitude.

      • Nugs on 27/06/2018 - 06:25
        +2

        mmm bacon.

        I hate waste, but I love meat (not seafood, that's for cats).

        .

        • fantombloo on 27/06/2018 - 07:33
          +1

          The juxtaposition of your comment against a call to use our brains Illuminates the severity of the issue raised by OP.

      • Ryanek on 27/06/2018 - 08:10
        +1

        You don't help your cause when you call those you want to convert "stupid".

        • fantombloo on 27/06/2018 - 08:38
          -1

          1. It's not my cause dude; I'm no special beneficiary of anything.

          2. I'm not calling anyone stupid, just trying to incite people to pull their heads out of dark places and rise up to their own intelligence.

          3. If you think invitation to personal sensibility is "conversion" then that's a new meaning I never knew about.

        • Ryanek on 27/06/2018 - 09:24
          +1

          @thevofa: You're obviously passionate about your beliefs. Just respect others that don't feel the same way you do.

        • fantombloo on 27/06/2018 - 10:58

          @Ryanek:

          You're obviously passionate about your beliefs

          Considering that the decision to stop consuming non-essential animal products in order to improve the quality of life of billions of sentient beings and the natural environment that supports them is beyond many people's sober consideration, I'm obviously nowhere near as passionate about my "beliefs" as others are about bacon and cheeseburgers.

        • HighAndDry on 27/06/2018 - 11:22

          @thevofa: I think you're just proving their point that "You're obviously passionate about your beliefs".

          Also, enjoying the taste of meat is not a belief.

        • fantombloo on 27/06/2018 - 11:44

          @HighAndDry:

          enjoying the taste of meat is not a belief.

          No;that was never implied. But believing it justifies ruining the lives of other sentient beings and the natural environment is. And it's largely inherited, personally uncontested, and built on privilege - the most insidious type of belief.

        • HighAndDry on 27/06/2018 - 12:28

          @thevofa: I'm pretty sure for 99% of people (meat eaters), the level of thought that goes into it is pretty much: "This tastes good, I'm going to eat it." Don't think that rises to being a "belief", any more than your use of basically 99% of the things in your house amounts to a belief, for example, that:

          The convenience and savings in using imported products and clothes justifies the slave-labour conditions and indentured servitude the workers, often children, have to endure.

        • fantombloo on 27/06/2018 - 13:17

          @HighAndDry:

          Yes, at the end of the day all you can say is "tu quoque," because really that's all there is. Have a good day.

        • HighAndDry on 27/06/2018 - 13:24

          @thevofa: Throwing latin around doesn't actually win you arguments. I'm also not the one being sanctimonious and judgemental. I said - under your logic, that would be the beliefs attributed to you. I don't ascribe to your logic, if you hadn't noticed.

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