Channel Four's 'What goes in your basket?'
Ravinder travels to Zimbabwe to explore the ethics of importing tilapia fish.
And, as the price of meat rises, Jay Rayner asks if we are too kind to our animals?
Excerpt from 'The Week' :
"Farming salmon also destroys marine ecosystems, because small wild fish are ground up for feed; as a result, stocks of sand eel, whiting and anchovy are plummeting. Yes, if we are to carry on eating fish, aquaculture is the only solution. But we will need to farm the vegetarian fish, such as tilapia and barramundi, rather than the carnivores of the sea."
There is an arresting claim attributed to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation: "Commercial aquaculture is the most rapidly growing segment of the agricultural industry, accounting for more than $60bn sales in 2003. While land-based agriculture is increasing between 2% and 3% per year, aquaculture has been growing at an average rate of approximately 9% per year since 1970."
Excerpt from 'The food debate' in The Observer on 26.09.10.
Lake Harvest is the first tilapia farm in Africa to meet the new International Standards for Responsible Tilapia Aquaculture (ISRTA). These new global standards are designed to reassure consumers about how food is produced and have been set by GLOBALGAP.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to farm fish and you feed him for a lifetime
- Chinese Proverb
Lake Harvest encourages you to help Aquaculture without Frontiers to teach others how to farm fish so they can eat for a lifetime.
