- Dec 18, 2010
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Asian seafood farmers are feeding their shrimp and fish pig feces.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...-pig-feces-approved-for-u-dot-s-dot-consumers
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...-pig-feces-approved-for-u-dot-s-dot-consumers
Vietnam ships 100 million pounds of shrimp a year to the U.S. Thats almost 8 percent of the shrimp Americans eat.
Yang Shuiquan, chairman of a government-sponsored tilapia aquaculture association in Lianjiang, 200 kilometers from Yangjiang, says he discourages using feces as food because it contaminates water and makes fish more susceptible to diseases. He says a growing number of Guangdong farmers adopt that practice anyway because of fierce competition.
Many farmers have switched to feces and have stopped using commercial feed, he says.