While there are some really good aquaculture ponds in Asia, in many of these ponds -- or really in most of these ponds -- its typical to use untreated chicken manure as the primary nutrition, They can survive in hopelessly polluted environments, they can be bred and raised in garbage cans and, when necessary, can subsist on a diet of other animals excrement. Outside Hong Kong, at a tilapia farm, fish are fed a diet that includes pig and geese feces. That practice, Michael Doyle tells Bloomberg Markets, is unsafe for U.S. consumers, because the manure may be contaminated with salmonella. Doyle is director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia. Fish farmers, he says, use fecal matter as a cheaper alternative to commercial fish food.
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:25:09 +0000
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