Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause

Re:Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in... by srg0 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:44AM (#25100421)

Commercial fishing at modern scale is not sustainable. Fish farming, especially for valuable species, still has a huge carbon footprint, requires a non trivial amount of agricultural land, and often uses wild-caught fish to feed the farm. So we're back to square one.

Not saying that the issues can't be solved, but pisciculture is not a free lunch from the sustainability point of view.

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Re:Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in... by curryst on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:34AM (#25112919)

> Fish farming, especially for valuable species, still has a huge carbon footprint, requires a non trivial amount of agricultural land, and often uses wild-caught fish to feed the farm. So we're back to square one.

Isn't most of that only true for carnivorous or omnivorous fish? I knew there were problems with finding small fish to feed the bigger fish, but I was under the impression that herbivores and filter feeders could be raised sustainably. I.e. farming tuna would be extremely difficult and costly to the environment, but you can farm things like tilapia and catfish fairly sustainably.

They aren't fish that a lot of people are excited to eat, unfortunately.

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Re:Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in... by galangalalgol on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:16AM (#25101330)

My favorites are baitfish like herring and sardines does that change the sustainability? If not, should I just go back to beef, or is it at least better?

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Re:Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in... by galangalalgol on Sunday November 15, 2020 @09:26AM (#25101407)

Tilapa are herbivores, and some setups grow all the fishes food in the tank. Whether that is scalable is another matter.

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