News - crustacean
What’s cooking: The ‘Forgotten Fish’ of Scotland
19 May 2012, 6:23 pm
Squat lobster: A small (2-3 inches long) spider like species of
crustacean with a very high quality tail. Catches are very low as there is no traditional market for this species so it is often put back into the sea.
Mostly Clear
18 May 2012, 8:44 pm
Is The Shrimp You Are Eating Really Safe? With Americans eating more shrimp -- more than 1 billion pounds a year or 4 pounds per person -- than salmon, crab and trout combined, the
crustacean seems to be the U.S.'s favorite seafood.
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis - review
12 May 2012, 2:57 am
An addict turned neuroscientist is both fascinating and irritating "Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a
crustacean and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am myself , myself alone." It's worth keeping William James's moment of empathy with arthropods in mind during any discussion of the ...
This Is Not Fancy Camerawork, Just One Giant Biggest crustacean [Wtf]
3 May 2012, 10:16 pm
# wtf Say hello to Claude, the Tasmanian Monster Crab , who was recently caught off the coast of Tasmania. Originally destined to become crab cakes (approx 162 of them), a British aquarium bought his freedom for $4,800 and transported him to the UK, where he is expected to grow much, much larger. More »
Food FYI: The hidden costs of cheap shrimp
27 April 2012, 11:06 am
crustacean FRUSTRATIONS Using aquaculture to mass-produce shrimp has dropped prices to all-time lows, says Good magazine. The bad news? "Increasing evidence suggests that the savings to consumers are fueled by human rights abuses and environmental disasters at shrimp farms." PINK...