Factory Farms in the Oceans??
In May 2020, Donald Trump signed an executive order to speed up the addition of factory farms for fin fish in the oceans. These Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are out of sight of land, but create the same kind of pollution and food hazards as CAFOs in farmland. Fortunately, a coalition of groups and businesses are fighting back and asking Biden to rescind Executive Order 3921.
Consumers from the mainland are usually ignorant--or don't care--where their ocean fish comes from and we certainly don't think about it coming from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, suspended just a few miles offshore. And these CAFOs aren't in the news even though we read about plastic pollution and chemicals flowing from farmland into the Gulf of Mexico. Don't Cage Our Oceans is a coalition bringing together businesses, environmental groups, food safety advocates and other organizations that are interested in cleaning up the oceans and not in creating more pollution. They ask President Biden to revoke the Trump era Executive Order 13921 that allows industry to site these giant fish factories and exempts them from oversight. In this podcast, Campaign Directory Andriana Natsoulis talks about the potential and the hope for the future, as well as the danger posed from these fish factories suspended in giant nets in the ocean.