6mo ago

Schools in Spain required to serve fruit, vegetables and fish in fight against obesity

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Mmm school cafeteria fish, sounds delish and like nothing could be even remotely disappointing about that option.
- Cafeteria food doesn’t have to suck. It’s just in the US they use the cheapest food to subsidize farmers.
  
  They don't even subsidize farmers directly, its commodity priced inputs. It mostly goes to the middleman companies that turn everything into processed preserved shit.
- Plenty of countries manage to serve their kids food at school that doesn’t suck.
The worst thing about this is that fish is probably the least sustainable protein around.
That's saying a lot, because beef is pretty fucking bad, but at least we can raise beef rather sustainably, it's just not cost effective or scalable, especially if you want to be a bit humane about it.
Most commercial fish we consume are middle- or top-food-chain. That means they need to eat other fish. Which means that even farming them relies on harvesting fish from the ocean, or farming an entire foodchain below them (and adequate for each life stage, at that). Farmed fish are implicitly dependent on traditional ocean fishing.