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Eating Swordfish, Halibut, King Prawns is Hypocrisy

Eating Swordfish, Halibut, King Prawns is Hypocrisy

King Prawns
King Prawns

We rightly deplore the apparent unconcern with which [Bluefin Tuna] is being driven to extinction. But it is not a world apart from the habits of liberal, well-educated people I know in Britain – friends and relatives among them – who, despite widespread coverage of the impacts of unsustainable fishing on television and in the newspapers they read, continue to buy species such as swordfish, halibut and king prawns, which are either in dire trouble or whose exploitation causes great ecological damage.

— George Monbiot. Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life. Penguin, 2014. Page 246.

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