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Also Receiving Antibiotics on Factory Farms: Shrimp

February 24, 2012 By Maryn Leave a Comment

Tom Philpott of Mother Jones had a great post earlier this week looking at the vast environmental damage caused by shrimp farming in South and Southeast Asia. He takes off from a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by J. Boone Kauffman of Oregon State University, which examined the destruction of coastal mangrove forests that allows shrimp farms to be established and found that shrimp’s carbon footprint is 10 times higher than that of beef cattle. Tom says:

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, animals, antibiotics, China, FDA, food, food policy, Science Blogs, shrimp, Vietnam

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