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...directly. To create 1 kg (2.2 lbs.) of high-protein fishmeal, which is fed to farmed fish (along with fish oil, which also comes from other fish), it takes 4.5 kg (10 lbs.) of smaller pelagic, or open-ocean, fish. "Aquaculture's current heavy reliance on wild fish for feed carries substantial ecological risks," says Roz Naylor, a leading scholar on the subject at Stanford University's Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Unless the industry finds alternatives to using pelagic fish to sustain fish farms, says Naylor, the aquaculture industry could end up depleting an essential food source...
Industry and publicly funded research have significantly mitigated this inefficiency and reduced the percentage of fish and oil content in aqua-feed, replacing it with vegetable proteins and oils. "I would say cost, the sustainability of resources - pelagic fisheries - and human health concerns have been driving researchers to find replacements for fishmeal and fish oil - and we are doing this to the greatest extent possible," says Dr. David Higgs, a fish nutritionist for the Canadian government who works closely with British Columbia's $450 million salmon industry. (Reducing the fish content in feed also reduces the accumulation of PCBs...
...Even when we’re not on the best of terms—if, say, a friend beat me in a friendly game of Xbox, he wouldn’t pour salt in the wound by failing to feed me or locking me out. He wouldn’t keep the windows open so I’d freeze, forcing me to go outside just to achieve a little bit of comfort. In short, he wouldn’t be like Holy Cross...
...study is "to our knowledge.. the largest randomized trial ever done in the area of human lactation," write the study's authors. But it's not likely to be the last. Science will continue to debate the discrete pros and cons of breast-feeding, but doctors unanimously agree that breast, in general, is best for babies' health, growth and development. Mothers should breast-feed newborns for at least 12 months - and exclusively for at least 6 months - according to American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines...
...wonder how many of Maddin's other assertions are factual? Does Winnipeg have "10 times the sleepwalking rate of any city in the world"? Is it really "the coldest city in the world"? I don't know. To me these sound like the boastful statistics that adults feed to an imaginative, impressionable boy, and that stick in his head forever - like the image of those frozen horses...