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Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world by hutzlibu on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @01:12PM (#24201311)
"I think we urgently need global legislation"

That would require a world government. Not likely to happen and not something I would want to happen for the various potential negative side effects.

It is already very hard to control our national governments.

International treaties and boycotting and embargos of violaters, maybe yes, but currently the trend is into more confrontation and not collaboration.

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Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world by dharma1 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:54PM (#24202705)
Yes treaties is what I meant. Hopefully more collaboration after November with the new guy in charge!
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Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world by GordonS on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:08PM (#24204930)
Unfortunately the US is not exactly leading on animal welfare, and indeed resists urges to improve. As much as I dislike Trump, this has been the case since long before him.

Federal-level animal welfare standards are lacking. Welfare in the US standards are well below that of Europe. Pigs, for example, still often live their short life in stalls so small they can't even turn around - by comparison, the practice of using these "sow stalls" was banned in the UK before the turn of the century. Additionally, the use of antibiotics and hormones is very high.

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Re:Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world by hutzlibu on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:59PM (#24205341)
Well, but the topic seems to be "how can we avoid that the maritime ecosystem collapse, so we still can eat seafish?" and not "animal welfare".

I support both.

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