39 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:
My doctor told me not to eat shrimp. So I don't buy it. When I used to purchase shrimp I did not source it from South East Asia. Similarly I do not knowingly buy chocolate from West Africa. Last I read Nestle has pledged to cease selling slave produced chocolate by 2020.
Beef, lamb, chickens, and pork I eat. I eschew veal. I did not say anything about global warming or destruction of the rainforest. I prefer to avoid palm oil but I am not obsessive about it. Not in the same category for me as, say, child slavery.
I stated my choices, what are yours?
I didn't say you said anything about global warming or rainforests. I merely said that one food choice can have effects beyond the immediate. Whether or not you buy shrimp, is irrelevant; I only gave that as an example.
My choices?
I always buy live, wild shrimp caught locally (in south-east Asia where I live!) I nearly always eat the smaller shrimp/prawns because they are what I can get most easily live and from known sources, but also because they taste better.
Most of the "beef" I buy is actually water buffalo and I buy very little of that.
I don't eat avocados for the very reasons given in the article - deforestation and water diversion. Like you, I don't eat endangered species, but am aware that my food choices, even involving non-endangered species, have indirect consequences.
I never eat what are usually called processed foods (although all foods are processed), so any palm oil consumption is low to negligible. I don't eat chocolate, because I don't particularly like it.
My only real point is that this is a very complicated issue.
