fish and meat from sustainable sources

• Sustainable fishing involves respecting marine ecosystems and adapting to the reproductive rate of fish to maintain a balance and ensure the survival of all species
• Modern fishing techniques using large nets often wipe out whole fish populations and trap many fish by accident
• Sensitive habitats, endangered species, and the marine food chain need to be maintained for healthy and productive oceans
• Trapped fish in fishing nets are called bycatches and are often seriously injured or killed in the process
• Illegal fishing involves fishing in unauthorized areas, ignoring limits or quotas on fish catches, and poses a threat to fish populations, marine ecosystems, and legitimate fishing livelihoods
• Sustainable fishing involves catching fewer fish by using better net designs and returning to traditional fishing methods like smaller scale fishing
• Sustainable meat farming uses animals raised in a kinder way that can be sustained over many generations by supporting free-range and organic certified meat
• Meat production is resource-heavy, with 6.5 kg of grain and over 13,000 liters of water needed to rear every kilogram of beef
• Sustainable meat production involves using grass as animal feed and differentiates between pasture-raised meat and industrially produced meat
• Pasture-raised animals spend time eating vegetation, are unconfined, and can express their natural behaviors, while animals in industrial systems are confined and fed a grain-based diet
• economic disadvantages:

  • the cost can be expensive
  • up to 77 million fish are farmed and killed every year in the UK
  • running costs are expensive and price to produce a kilo of beef has risen by 19 p in one year
• social disadvantages:

  • there may be more diseases as the fish live so close to each other, so can be passed to humans
• environmental disadvantages:

  • beef produce around 20 times more greenhouse gases than farmed molluscs
• economic advantages:

  • allows stocks to recover so less freshwater area is used
  • minimises energy consumption
• social advantages:

  • omega 3 and 6 is essential
  • healthier for the consumers
  • foodborne diseases are eliminated as they have freedom
• environmental advantages:

  • seafood low carbon footprint
  • recovers biodiversity loss
• dorset meat company works with 20 small family run farms that all produce meat naturally and ethically which is better for the farmers and better for the people
• fish said fred use suppliers that they know and trust to source fish sustainably and in the right way