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It sure is a pig-eat-anchovy world out there. While that may sound like a joke, the results of a newly released study say it's no laughing matter. Farmers are fattening1 up their animals with anchovies2 and sardines3 at an alarming rate. In fact, one-third of the world's commercially harvested seafood4 now is used to feed pigs, chickens and farm-raised fish.
Researchers from the University of British Columbia and Stony5 Brook6 University spent nine years compiling data on how humans caught, processed and consumed seafood. They report that 37 percent of all the fish caught are small forage7 fish like sardines and anchovies. And 90 percent of that catch ends up as fishmeal or fish oil, used primarily in animal feed. Forage fish are popular because they can be caught in massive quantities and sold at cheap prices. But, researchers say, these fish support the marine8 food web, and they’re nutritious9 staples10 for coastal-dwelling people in developing countries. So it might be time to rethink the menu. If you feed a pig a fish, it'll eat for a day. But if you feed fish to millions of pigs, well, you might just run out of fish.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Adam Hinterthuer.
1 fattening | |
adj.(食物)要使人发胖的v.喂肥( fatten的现在分词 );养肥(牲畜);使(钱)增多;使(公司)升值 | |
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2 anchovies | |
n. 鯷鱼,凤尾鱼 | |
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3 sardines | |
n. 沙丁鱼 | |
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4 seafood | |
n.海产食品,海味,海鲜 | |
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adj.石头的,多石头的,冷酷的,无情的 | |
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n.小河,溪;v.忍受,容让 | |
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7 forage | |
n.(牛马的)饲料,粮草;v.搜寻,翻寻 | |
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adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵 | |
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9 nutritious | |
adj.有营养的,营养价值高的 | |
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n.(某国的)主要产品( staple的名词复数 );钉书钉;U 形钉;主要部份v.用钉书钉钉住( staple的第三人称单数 ) | |
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