[OANNES Foro] Soya transgénica: la conexión de la agroindustria con las piscifactorías

[Mario Cabrejos]

Del informe Factory-Fed Fish: How the Soy Industry Is Expanding Into the Sea, de la organización Food & Water Watch.


Findings

. If the soy industry succeeds in helping the aquaculture industry meet the annual production goals for marine finfish set by the federal government, and in getting a substantial portion of soybean meal included in the diets of these farmed fish, it could net an additional $201 million each year; this doesn't include revenue it may earn from supplying soy as a feed ingredient for other types of fish farming in the United States or abroad.

. Although the soy industry claims that soy is an environmentally friendly alternative for fish feed, fish that are fed soy have been shown to produce more waste; thus, an increase in the amount of soy fed to fish in fish farms could increase the pollution load on the environment surrounding these farms.

. In open ocean fish farming, uneaten feed flows directly from the cage into the environment. Because 94 percent of the soy grown in the United States and much of the soy grown internationally is genetically modified, feeding soy to farmed fish means that genetically modified food will enter the environment and diets of other marine organisms.

. The rising use of soy in fish farming industries will mean that notorious agribusinesses like Monsanto, which has sponsored feed trials with genetically modified soy and salmon, and Cargill, which has an aquaculture feed division, will play a hand in seafood production. 

. Deforestation to clear land for soy farms, which is already a problem in South America, could increase given the large quantity of soy that aquaculture would require to meet U.S. targets for finfish production.

. A growing number of researchers has noted that the potentially negative impacts of the increasing amount of soy in our diets are under-researched, and it is even less apparent what the long-term human health impacts could be of consuming soy secondarily, through fish and meat raised on soy.


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