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Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone

Grist

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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Transforming flies into degradable plastics

Envirotec Magazine

She also notes that obtaining chitin from flies could avoid possible concerns over some seafood allergies. This product could potentially be used in cropland soil to capture floodwater and then slowly release moisture during subsequent droughts, Wooley says.

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BREAKING: FAIRR & Good Food Institute launch sustainability reporting frameworks for alternative protein

AFN Sustainable Protein

The FAIRR investor network and the Good Food Institute (GFI) have launched two new reporting frameworks for alternative meat, seafood, dairy, and egg companies to use when revealing their environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts to would-be investors and others. of all anthropogenic GHG emissions.

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Can The Fate Of Dolphins and Louisiana’s Fishing Industry Stop A Massive Mississippi River Diversion Plan?

DeSmogBlog

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. Two days before the public comment period closed on the EIS statement, I attended a June 1 CPRA public meeting in Buras, Louisiana, a small town reliant on the seafood industry near the tip of Plaquemines Parish.

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Sustainable Food Management Checklist: Getting Started Guide for the Office Cafeteria

Green Business Bureau

Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Compost will give nutrient-rich soil that’s good for the environment. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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Habits of Waste unveils free app to help you be an imperfect vegan

AGreenLiving

The app tracks each vegan meal you eat per week, totaling up the amount of emissions you have saved by nixing meat, seafood and dairy. The problems with meat and seafood It’s well-documented that a plant-based diet is a huge win for the planet. Fishing is responsible for around half of all ocean pollution.

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Why we should support small fishing boats over super-trawlers, Part 2

Low Impact

In the absence of something like the Soil Association to certify that your meat or veg is organically produced, how can the consumer really know? On your fish packs you name the person who caught your fish, which I think is great. That’s one of the things I like – transparency and traceability.