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Environmental groups such as Sea Piracy are against farming any kind of sea food and taking away krill or seaweed from oceans. Oceans are already devastated by overfishing

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Environmental groups such as Sea Piracy like to say what we shouldn't do, but they're usually overidealistic, and hardly ever suggest what we should do instead. Not eating seafood is just not a realistic expectation.

Of course it is. You just don't like the expectation. What we should do is eat waaay less meat and seafood. It takes less land, water, and outside calories to product veggies and beans over meat and fish. Obviously this is not a reality for many people on the planet but it also is a reality for many people on the planet who just choose not to do it.

We are going to end up without seafood eventually anyhow. There's no good solution, global fisheries will continue their collapse as long as we lean on them.

If there is certainty that we will end up without seafood eventually, we might as well enjoy all the seafood while we can.

I think their point is that we can either have no seafood and devastated oceans, or no seafood and healthy(ish) oceans.

Except they do!

Sea Shepard DOs:

- Document illegal fishing or whaling with evidence.

- Intervene to prevent illegal capture of protected species.

- Promote awareness and education about marine conservation.

- Buy local

- Boycott trawling method of catch

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