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MIT engineers design a safer, more efficient vaccination system for farmed fish (news.mit.edu)
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[–] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

While the process is incredibly interesting from a science standpoint it essentially serves to increase the efficency of factory farming. Factory farming is not a sustainable model to feed people and thus making efficency gains only helps to prolong the life of an industrie that destroys our habitats. Fish are suffering inside these farm, they are purposefully starved before they are slaughtered and many die before they are ready for slaughtering additonally many farms require external fish supplies to feed their own fish so the still contribute to the world wide overfishing.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Ok, so what is a sustainable way of feeding everybody?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Lab grown meat and salmon seems to be on a good track right now, but still a bit far off for widespread adaption and low cost, until then i guess either a slow controled population decrease (this sounds like killing, this is not what i mean), controlling the obesity crisis by regulating junk food producers which purposefully produce addictive food, focus on a plant based diet, less overconsumption, reducing food waste by throwing less stuff away, abolishing a best before date. Just some (not perfect) examples from the top of my head.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    The thing is: A lot of that stuff isn't going to happen any time soon and factory fishing is happening - it is a reality. Reducing the harm it causes still seems like a net good to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    Reducing the harm simple keeps the system running longer. See welfare states and capitalism, and what Europe is undergoing now even though they made capitalism more tolerable (for their people at least, the global south still gets raped as hard).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    I understand where you are coming from, I just think that harm reduction in a system that will still cause harm is the wrong way to achieve change. I guess it is just two different ways to tackle a problem.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 week ago

    If you can figure out a way to get things to actually change, great, but the problem is that doesn't seem to be happening. Ultimately: Mitigating is better than not mitigating, at least until people find a way to truly shift to a more sustainable means.

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