Today I would like to touch on a delicate topic
Cleaning and washing Have we become obsessed with it? Do we really need to use as much soaps? And I don’t even want to touch on the antibacterial overuse. I understand that we are scared of covid and I do see the point of keeping up with our hygiene when we go out touching things that many others have touched especially when in a global pandemic But if we ignore for a minute the global situation that we find ourselves in (go on, allow yourself that pleasure), do we really need to shower daily (and even multiple times) with lots of soap and shampoo?
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We had the 10 fun facts about mussels before and wouldn’t want the oysters to be feeling left out . Plus, oysters will soon become my new study species and decided to give you a little insight into why they are cool (need to start a new #oystersarecool to accompany the #musselsarecool which I recommend you to follow if you are on Twitter)
Last week I attended (online) the world ocean summit week organised by The Economist . Amongst many interesting talks about blue carbon, offsetting and other more economical issues , there were various debates on the future of fisheries and Aquaculture. Yes, because fish is something we came to rely on. We have a per capita consumption of fish of 20 kg per year. About 50 g a day, or approximately a sardine , if we each ate it daily. Which doesn’t sound like necessarily a lot if we think about individual consumption, but these values were an average computed by taking all of the world population. Some will eat more , some much less. But this is the average so you would need to multiply it for the however many billions that human population is, and you can see that is unsustainable if we don’t want to fish everything that is in the sea out. This is where aquaculture comes in handy . And aquaculture has suffered from a bad rep - it has been portrayed as something that keeps fish in bad conditions overcrowded , prone to illnesses , full of antibiotic, over fed, with negative impacts on the surrounding environment due to the high amount of organic material deposited . It has also been portrayed as something that creates a lot of waste . All in all - not great! But this may be an old portray. Why not try to paint a new one? This weekend last year I was up in the mountains . I remember so well thinking they couldn’t lock people in . What were those rumours? So we went for our weekend adventure .
Then Sunday afternoon my father’s call. ‘Where are you?’ ‘On the bus getting home, coming back from a beautiful hike’ ‘you know you shouldn’t be out of the council borders right ?’. And so it began. One year of this different life One year in which our habits have shifted, some for the better some for the worse . Let’s start with bad news getting them out of the way |
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