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Is the GM crops war over? What’s next?

Posted on May 31, 2014 by argylesock

GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered) crops are a fact of life by now. In our interconnected world (remember the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, which might be finalised soon) I think that people who oppose GM crops may have … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, fish, food, horticulture, miniculture, money and trade | Tagged Africa, America, aquaculture, Asia, biodiversity, biotechnology, Bt crop, commodity crop, crop diversity, development, Dow, entomoculture, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, finfish, fisher, foraging, genetic modification, hunting, insect, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, Monsanto, neglected crop, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, Roundup Ready crop, shellfish, soya, staple food, superbug, superweed, Swaminathan_Monkombu, trade, tradition, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, vertebrate, wild food | 10 Comments

Feeding vegetable oils to farmed salmon

Posted on March 9, 2014 by argylesock

Many fish farmers in temperate climates raise Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Salmon are carnivores, fed pellets made from (among other things) wild fish. Wild fish are getting scarcer so a team of scientists, led by Erling-Olaf Koppang at the Norwegian … Continue reading →

Posted in fish, knowledge transfer | Tagged aquaculture, Atlantic salmon, biotechnology, canola, crop, fatty acid, feed, finfish, fish oil, fishery, fishmeal, genetic modification, hunting, nutrition, oilseed, olive, Omega Camelina, plant_dicot, rapeseed, research, soya, sustainable, vertebrate, veterinary, wildlife | 9 Comments

Proud of the Fish Fight

Posted on March 5, 2014 by argylesock

The European Union changed its policy last year, to stop good fish being discarded dead from boats. Here’s celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall crowing about the Fish Fight. No more discards in European seas! I’m proud of the Fish Fight too. … Continue reading →

Posted in fish | Tagged conservation, Europe, finfish, fish discards, fisher, fishery, fishing, hunting, law, politics, sea, vertebrate, wild food | Leave a comment

GM oilseeds for Britain?

Posted on January 26, 2014 by argylesock

This year in Britain, we heard there’d be no GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered, biotech) crops. It didn’t last. A new GM crop might soon be field-tested here. Eventually this crop might reduce pressure on overfished seas. A land plant … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, fish, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade | Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, algaculture, algae, aquaculture, Atlantic salmon, bioaccumulation, biotechnology, blue mussel, brassica, brown crab, brown trout, butternut squash, conservation, crop, false flax, fat, fatty acid, feed, finfish, fishery, fishing, flax, genetic modification, grocery, hemp, hunting, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, linseed, nut, nutrition, oilseed, oilseed Omega Camelina, oyster, pecan, plant_dicot, rainbow trout, research, sea, seed, skipjack tuna, sustainable, trade, value-added, vertebrate, wild food | 7 Comments

Chinese shark fin soup ban

Posted on December 9, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This video says about itself: 3 July 2012 China announces plans to ban shark fin soup at official functions, delighting environmentalists. Ramy Inocencio reports. From AFP news agency: China bans shark fin soup…

Posted in fish | Tagged conservation, finfish, fishing, grocery, hunting, law, politics, seafood, shark, vertebrate, welfare, wild food | Leave a comment

Why not eat insects?

Posted on November 25, 2013 by argylesock

Marcel Dicke asks us in this entertaining lecture, Why not eat insects? Good question. In fact, as he says, we’re already eating insects and we’re going to have to eat more of them. The posh word for eating insects is … Continue reading →

Posted in ecology, food, knowledge transfer, miniculture | Tagged arthropod, conservation, development, entomoculture, entomophagy, food, food safety, food security, foraging, hunting, insect, knowledge, microlivestock, research, sustainable, wild food | Leave a comment

Insects could be the future of food

Posted on November 23, 2013 by argylesock

In many cultures, insects are delicacies. Mostly people are eating beetles (Coleoptera) and caterpillars (Lepidoptera). People also eat bees, wasps and ants (Hymenoptera), cicadas (Hemiptera), locusts and crickets (Orthoptera), dragonflies (Odonata) and flies (Diptera). Eating insects is called entomophagy. Those … Continue reading →

Posted in food, knowledge transfer, miniculture | Tagged coleopteran, dipteran, entomoculture, entomophagy, food, foraging, harvest, hemipteran, hunting, hymenopteran, lepidopteran, odonatan, orthopteran, wild food | 6 Comments

Bycatch: 1 for the price of 10

Posted on November 21, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on A Perspective Study:
Bycatch is a real and growing problem. We are catching more fish unintentionally than ever before thanks the to large-scale implementation of bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which ships as big as supertankers…

Posted in fish | Tagged bycatch, conservation, finfish, fishing, hunting, invertebrate, marine conservation zone, politics, sea, seabed, seafood, shellfish, trawling, vertebrate, wild food | Leave a comment

Rookes, Crowes and Choughes

Posted on October 31, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on The Naturephile:
‘If men had wings and black feathers, few of them would ever be clever enough to be crows’ Henry Ward Beecher Clergyman, wit and abolitionist I’m incarcerated at home at the moment, having been laid…

Posted in agriculture, ecology | Tagged bird, bird of prey, carrion crow, chough, conservation, corvid, food security, history, hunting, land use, law, pest, predator, raptor, red kite, rook, shooting, vermin, vertebrate, wildlife | 4 Comments

Badger cull is to start tomorrow night

Posted on August 25, 2013 by argylesock

Here in Britain some cattle (Bos primigenius) get bovine tuberculosis (bTB) and we want rid. Wild badgers (Meles meles) can get bTB too. Some people think badgers spread the infection (Mycobacterium bovis) to cattle. Others think that we shouldn’t obsess … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, ecology | Tagged badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, dog, fox, history, hunting, law, livestock, mammal, Mycobacterium bovis, notifiable disease, politics, ruminant, shooting, tuberculosis, vertebrate, welfare, wildlife | 1 Comment