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...book Diet for a Small Planet, Frances Moore Lappe argued more than 35 years ago that grain-fed cattle were essentially "reverse protein factories" because they required many more pounds of plant protein to produce a pound of flesh. Now there's a similar dynamic in the global fish farming, or aquaculture, industry - especially as it strains to satisfy consumers' voracious appetite for top-of-the-food chain, carnivorous fish, such as salmon, tuna and shrimp...
...core of the millennia-long tradition of fish-farming in Asia and parts of Africa - catfish, carp and milkfish - actually require less fish input than is ultimately harvested, because they are herbivorous or omnivorous. In Asia, the idea of feeding several times more fishmeal to get one pound back would seem sheer folly. "Ultimately that is really where the solution is - to cut back on these carnivorous species and turn our attention to these plant-eating ones," says U. Rashid Sumaila, a bioeconomist at the University of British Columbia (UBC). "Whether we are willing to do that is another thing...
...punt, setting up the winning touchdown drive from the Holy Cross 23-yard line with 1:19 left on the clock.“It never should have come down to the defense” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “We should have been able to pound it out, get the first down. They had no timeouts left, we can run the clock out.”Despite that, the Harvard defense appeared to be on the verge of making a fifth straight stop. On first down from his own 34-yard line, Randolph threw over...
...Still, the plan hammered out by Maurizio Prato, Alitalia's third chairman in the past year, may contain a corporate logic that goes beyond all the apparent wheel-spinning. The company, no one doubts, must be sold. The 5,000-pound vulture in the room is named Air France-KLM, which sat out this past year's round of bidding. Alitalia's initial cuts (modest as they are) to both personnel and fleet, its search for some hanging-on cash, and above all its shifting its hub southward all make it a more attractive regional partner for Air France following...
...presidential nomination, but after the day he spent at the Iowa State Fair Friday, Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson may as well be. Who else but a presidential wannabe, after all, would be escorted by the reigning Queen of Pork to see the fair's biggest bull, a 3,422-pound black bull named Lazar...