We have these beautiful little birds where I live. I don't want to see them gone.

Be well and be kind to your self. It must be challenging having to deal with the condition and I wish for you excellent health.

I'd like to be vege but unfortunately I've got https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant/restrictive_food_intake_disorder so I already limit what I eat quite a bit (hence the seafood)

although paleo looks quite good as well

Yes I accepted this 10 years ago when watching who killed the electric car, but people today have more alternatives than ever and had ample opportunities to buy yet

https://www.aaa.asn.au/research-data/electric-vehicle/

and when I see people talking about EV's today they are STILL asking whether spending the money is worth it and trying to work out payback times vs if they get a petrol car, there's no consideration for the environment at all

It's the same reason the electric car never took off to begin with even though we had EV's alongside the earliest petrol cars.

Petrol was simpler better and cheaper, nothing to do with the environment

Usable electric cars appeared during the 1890s. An electric car held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the early 20th century, the high cost, low top speed, and short range of battery electric vehicles left them unable to compete with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles for consumer use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicle

I've been vegetarian for quite a few years and if you make sure you eat sensibly you can stay pretty healthy, help the environment and save money too.

While a fair criticism at a glance. Those oil companies have done all they could to ensure their own longevity, from suppressing evidence on climate change to lobbying for a car-centric society. You can't blame emissions solely on the person diving a car, when that decision was in part made for them due to the lack of alternatives to them.

small handful of the wealthiest people on earth ?

Is this referencing that report that was like, this company produces oil so therefore it's to blame for all our problems conveniently avoiding the fact that billions of people drive petrol cars?

I can eat mince meat like in spaghetti and meat patty in burger but not steak

So I guess you don't eat red meat either because the smell of the uric acid (or whatever that awful smell is)? That is a lot stronger smell than fish. People just get used to different flesh meats and other pungent foods in general and end up normalising what they eat.

Dang. For some reason I assumed they were doing okay as far as bird species go.

"See kids, there used to be these incredibly beautiful creatures that flew around in the sky, unworried, peaceful. all shapes and sizes! they delighted humans with their songs and colorful plumage.... "

"What happened to them?"

"Well, a small handful of the wealthiest people on earth decided that maximizing the imaginary numbers on a screen mattered more than all living creatures. So now there are no birds. or amphibians. or coral reefs."

...

Sorry, that came off as a bit bossy reading it back. Personal information is your choice, not mine of course. For instance plenty of Mastodon users have their personal information up. I just wanted to highlight Maniacal's comment there, but it definitely comes across not how I intended. Sorry.

😉 Not the little fish. They just swim minding their own business.

Hope the changes I've made are more acceptable.

Say no to Tassie Salmon It’s time we Say No to Tasmanian-farmed Atlantic salmon for good.

This industry is linked to serious and ongoing environmental issues, including mass fish kills, animal welfare concerns and antibiotic use so heavy that local fishers have been warned to stay kilometers away from some sites.

Most critically, salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour poses an unacceptable extinction risk to the Maugean skate — a critically endangered species found nowhere else on Earth.

Atlantic salmon just aren’t suited to Australian conditions. Tasmania is the warmest place in the world where salmon are farmed at an industrial scale.

Tasmanian waters are warming rapidly, and summertimes are increasingly too hot for these cold-water fish. This weakens their immune systems and allows disease to spread rapidly through the crowded pens

Instead, look for NZ-farmed King salmon, Australian farmed barramundi and Murray cod, or even the native Australian salmon (which, sorry, isn’t actually a species of salmon).

Say no to wild caught barramundi Wild-caught barramundi from Queensland and the Northern Territory are caught using gillnets, which are known to entangle and kill a wide range of threatened marine animals.

This includes dolphins, dugongs, turtles and hammerhead sharks, as well as multiple species of critically endangered sawfish.

Instead, look for farmed barramundi and Murray cod. Most Australian barramundi is farmed in land-based tanks and ponds, and has a very low impact on the surrounding environment.

Note: There are significant concerns around a barramundi farm in Cone Bay, the only ocean based barramundi farm in Australia.

A proposed expansion of the farm is set to be situated in the highly biodiverse marine parks in WA’s special Kimberley waters.

Barramundi from Cone Bay is marketed as Tassal Fresh Aussie Barramundi and is found in Coles, we are investigating emerging and potentially serious environmental concerns with this product.

**So no to wild caught prawns ** When perusing prawn options, avoid those that were caught with a high risk to protected species.

Wild-caught prawns from New South Wales come with serious concerns about the capture of threatened and protected species.

These fisheries have a history of bycatch issues, meaning threatened species can be caught and killed alongside prawns.

There is some positive movement. The Queensland Government has been working with fishers on new bycatch reduction devices and has just announced plans to roll out electronic monitoring cameras on trawl boats from June, which should improve transparency and give a clearer picture of what’s being caught.

If monitoring is implemented properly, it will be a critical step towards these prawns becoming a recommended option in the future. For now, Queensland wild-caught prawns remain on our red list.

When shopping, use the GoodFish Guide to find any of the Green and Amber listed prawn options! Wild-caught King Prawns from South Australia's Spencer Gulf are a great option from Australia’s only Green-Listed wild prawn fishery!

**Say no to imported squid ** That salt and pepper squid may be hiding a bigger story.

Most of Australia’s frozen and chilled imported squid can’t be reliably traced back to its source fishery.

Much is imported from China, whose distant-water fishing fleets are responsible for the majority of global squid catch.

These fleets have been reported to engage in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as well as extensive human rights abuses.

Though populations of squid around the world are not deemed to be overfished, little is known about their ecological role making the lack of transparency in these supply chains concerning.

Choose Australian jig-caught Gould’s aka arrow squid or southern calamari from Victoria or South Australia.

Say no to snapper “Snapper” is used to describe a wide range of different fish, and after flake, it is one of the most commonly mislabelled seafood products in Australia.

That makes it especially important to ask your fishmonger exactly what species you’re buying and where it comes from.

Snapper populations (otherwise known as pink snapper) are unhealthy in New South Wales, and Queensland, and parts of Western Australia. In New Zealand , snapper trawling poses a high risk to marine mammals and seabirds but some important reforms are underway.

In Western Australia, snapper net fisheries are known to catch endangered Australian sea lions.

Instead, look for Victorian or South Australian snapper, which is a sustainable choice.

Say no to flake It’s time we all gave flake a break.

Flake should only refer to shark meat from gummy or rig sharks, but in reality, shark and ray products have some of the highest mislabelling rates in Australia.

A 2023 study found that 70% of shark products sampled were mislabelled, with 10% identified as endangered species. This makes it extremely difficult for consumers to know what they’re really buying.

Even when it is genuinely gummy shark, there are serious sustainability concerns. These include the continued catch and legal sale of endangered school sharks, as well as nets posing a high risk to endangered Australian sea lions in Western Australian fisheries.

Try barmed barramundi and Murray cod, sand whiting from New South Wales, or farmed silver perch — all sustainable choices for your Easter table.

Thank you for pointing that out.

💚 🥰

Go vego! It's an easy way to stop killing sentient animals.

Its not an app you pay for.

Just to emphasise, it doesn't matter whether the user needs to pay for an app or not, to be determined advertising.

Just to be clear I'm not saying I think this is advertising. I think theres useful information in the article. However there are inducements that exist in the beginning which certainly is an advertisement, and its obviously part of their campaign, so overall this skates really too close to advertising.

Following Maniacal's comment, maybe you should edit the post to delete the link and go to the website to find the page or similar that is currently linked but without the personal detail.

There is personal info in the newsletter you linked to such as a person's first name.

Did you read the article in the link? The bit about the app (which is not shit) I put in there so people can know what to buy that is not damaging to marine environment . It's to help people know what seafood is sustainably caught or grown, rather than buy what is not so as to not deplete the oceans of endangered species more than it already is. It also helps you know if farmed fish come from polluting businesses. It's not an app you pay for. It's an app you can use if you also care about what industrial fishing practices are doing to marine life. If you want to know more check the Australian Marine Conservation Society.

This is just advertising for some shit app.

I don't know what's happening in Norwegian fish farms. You seem to know about them. Here in Australia we have to be aware of what's happening with our seafood industry and how it's impacting our environment and what we can do to not make the situation worse.

Well I didn't know fishes had a beef with Easter. 

ngl I don't eat seafood tbh, the smell and taste is too much for me