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...line between heroic martyrdom and psychopathic self-destructiveness is ever a thin and shifting one, and Sean Penn, the writer and director of Into the Wild, has obviously poured his generous heart and sympathetic soul into his adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of young man named Chistopher McCandless, who chose (to his sorrow and our discomfort) to walk that line...
...Into the Wild...
...feed requirements. Ranched tuna, for instance, dine on live pelagic fish, such as anchovies, sardines and mackerel, but it takes about 20 kg (44 lbs.) of such feed to get 1 kg of tuna ready for a sushi bar near you. (Tuna are ranched - that is, corralled from the wild and then fed in anchored pens - because despite prodigious efforts, especially by the Japanese, no one has been able to raise tuna from eggs...
Environmentalists and industry dispute whether current wild-fish harvesting is done at sustainable levels, but there's no dispute that it's a finite resource - and demand keeps growing. A staggering 37% of all global seafood is now ground into feed, up from 7.7% in 1948, according to recent research from the UBC Fisheries Centre. One third of that feed goes to China, where 70% of the world's fish farming takes place; China now devotes nearly 1 million hectares (close to 4,000 sq. mi.) of land to shrimp farms. And about 45% of the global production of fishmeal...
...deep loneliness and the bitterest ironies. Barber, like Oluwale, is found in an infirmary, dressed in his late master's clothes and looking "as sad and as broken as any man can be." Oluwale, discovered dead in a river, after police harassment, is described by one cop as a "wild animal, not a human being" and by a nurse as "a savage animal." Both Barber and Turpin marry white Englishwomen, yet systematically undermine themselves through failures of judgment...