Why Do We Eat Prawns Run?
This book tells you something shocking about the world - that it is being ruined by very powerful forces. The start of the book, is where Fred Pearce looks at his stuff such as food and possessions and wonders. Where do my stuff come from? He sets out on an adventure to answer his question. However, the more he searches the uglier the answer gets.
Once example that stood out for me was when Pearce mentions he likes curry. He often wondered “where the prawns in my Saturday night curry come from, but I have never got a straight answer.” He was able to find out the prawns come from a village in Bangladesh. He discovers a whole area that has been devastated by prawns. Or rather, by our appetite for prawns. The old landscape of small farms and mangrove …show more content…
Prawn farming is a bug corruption. These farms require good irrigation and those who control the water expect payouts. If they do not get the payments, the supply is cut off with put the farm in suffering. There are prawn thieves, slaves even a mafia trying to get the hands on the money. Pearce makes us thing of prawn dealers like drug dealers. They walk all over people because there is so much money to be made. We eat the prawns; does this make us part of the corruption?
Pearce doesn’t stop there, he discovers his trousers are made in Bangladesh, who are crammed in a tiny room. He goes to cotton farms, trace mobile phones, and chemicals all around the world. He discovers the wooden furniture that furnish his home comes from an illegal logging plant in the far east.
Pearce shows that our greed and blindness is running the world everywhere. Recycled glass is used to make roads and palm oil is produced by destroying huge tracts of the rainforest. This isn’t very green. We are damaging the world because we being and encourage economic growth. Part of this encouragement is to encourage aspiration. The western world has a reputation for being rice and aspirational because we are so determined to get there. However, this is really greed and insecure. And now, as Pearce shows us, people in Bangladesh are starting to be
Once example that stood out for me was when Pearce mentions he likes curry. He often wondered “where the prawns in my Saturday night curry come from, but I have never got a straight answer.” He was able to find out the prawns come from a village in Bangladesh. He discovers a whole area that has been devastated by prawns. Or rather, by our appetite for prawns. The old landscape of small farms and mangrove …show more content…
Prawn farming is a bug corruption. These farms require good irrigation and those who control the water expect payouts. If they do not get the payments, the supply is cut off with put the farm in suffering. There are prawn thieves, slaves even a mafia trying to get the hands on the money. Pearce makes us thing of prawn dealers like drug dealers. They walk all over people because there is so much money to be made. We eat the prawns; does this make us part of the corruption?
Pearce doesn’t stop there, he discovers his trousers are made in Bangladesh, who are crammed in a tiny room. He goes to cotton farms, trace mobile phones, and chemicals all around the world. He discovers the wooden furniture that furnish his home comes from an illegal logging plant in the far east.
Pearce shows that our greed and blindness is running the world everywhere. Recycled glass is used to make roads and palm oil is produced by destroying huge tracts of the rainforest. This isn’t very green. We are damaging the world because we being and encourage economic growth. Part of this encouragement is to encourage aspiration. The western world has a reputation for being rice and aspirational because we are so determined to get there. However, this is really greed and insecure. And now, as Pearce shows us, people in Bangladesh are starting to be