Prawns - Crap/ Not Crap??
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Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
I'm a veggie, but even I find it hard to get worked up about the welfare of prawns.its probably not light hearted to everybody on these forums. so, nice of you to dissmiss other people here, very "meat eater" of you
Nixon
peanut butter n.w.o.
This thread is giving me prawn lust now!..Just before I came back from Barcelona I said that I would never forgive myself if I didn't go and have SOME seafood this time (it didn't happen at unsound..just loads of ket) so I took my girlfriend to a nice resteraunt and we both gorged on lovely tapas,chorizo,garlic mushrooms,catalan bread and I had king garlic prawns with grilled tomatoes and more bread to mop up the juices..nom noms indeed 
And even if you were, would you really be moved to pen a supercilious sneer on a good natured thread like this?
Still, despite the denials from WoW and others, it's good to see that the preachy vegan busybody stereotype is still alive and kicking.
I know what's you mean. I always steer clear of those always discounted packs of pre-cooked prawns at the supermarket for that reason. Less than a fiver they may be, but they're dispiriting proof of the bland standardisation of food. They look fine and dandy in their 'Taste the sodding difference' packaging, but they're a tasteless relative of the prawns you used to enjoy.
Seems to devalue them somehow. Prawns should be special, prised lovingly from their shells and devoured hungrily, not lined up in pre-packaged polypropylene cases for convenience.
Memories like Nixon's about garlicky prawns in their bread-mopping sauce goodness are what I'm after. Worthwhile food to treasure, not farmed chunks of taste-free protein that promise more than they deliver.
I don't really care about the welfare of prawns it is the damage to the environment and people who are killed for them I give a shit about.
Sorry for the big C&P
Read:
http://www.eurocbc.org/page777.html
EJF, which carried out extensive investigations into the global prawn industry over an 18 month period, says that in order to bring delicacies such as tiger or king prawn to the supermarket shelf vast tracts of ecologically important coastal forests are being destroyed to make way for prawn farms. These farms (often built on land seized illegally and with force) threaten coral reefs and marine wildlife with harmful pesticides and antibiotics; poisoning the water supplies of coastal communities, ruining agricultural land and reducing vital food supplies.
Displaced, unemployed and existing in poverty, some people
adversely affected by the prawn farms have fought back -
only to be met by unprecedented violence and intimidation.
Environmental groups have uncovered a catalogue of abuses
associated with prawn farming, including rape, arson and murder.
In over ten producing countries opponents of prawn farms have
been killed by persons reportedly acting on behalf of shrimp
farm operators. In Bangladesh, a major exporter of prawns to the UK,
over 150 people are understood to have been murdered in prawn
related conflicts.
And
http://www.ejfoundation.org/page109.html
On 29 April 2002, Abdur Rob Howladar and his 16-year old son
were attacked with machetes by 7 or 8 people who had previously
demanded money and two-thirds of his small shrimp farm.
The group have now occupied his land and he has received neither
rent nor compensation. His assailants have been arrested and
released on bail.
etc.
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I didnt know any of this until quite recently so have stopped eating prawns - but I may pinch a couple off someone's plate now and again
Read:
http://www.eurocbc.org/page777.html
EJF, which carried out extensive investigations into the global prawn industry over an 18 month period, says that in order to bring delicacies such as tiger or king prawn to the supermarket shelf vast tracts of ecologically important coastal forests are being destroyed to make way for prawn farms. These farms (often built on land seized illegally and with force) threaten coral reefs and marine wildlife with harmful pesticides and antibiotics; poisoning the water supplies of coastal communities, ruining agricultural land and reducing vital food supplies.
Displaced, unemployed and existing in poverty, some people
adversely affected by the prawn farms have fought back -
only to be met by unprecedented violence and intimidation.
Environmental groups have uncovered a catalogue of abuses
associated with prawn farming, including rape, arson and murder.
In over ten producing countries opponents of prawn farms have
been killed by persons reportedly acting on behalf of shrimp
farm operators. In Bangladesh, a major exporter of prawns to the UK,
over 150 people are understood to have been murdered in prawn
related conflicts.
And
http://www.ejfoundation.org/page109.html
On 29 April 2002, Abdur Rob Howladar and his 16-year old son
were attacked with machetes by 7 or 8 people who had previously
demanded money and two-thirds of his small shrimp farm.
The group have now occupied his land and he has received neither
rent nor compensation. His assailants have been arrested and
released on bail.
etc.
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I didnt know any of this until quite recently so have stopped eating prawns - but I may pinch a couple off someone's plate now and again
how am i "preaching"?
good "natured"? is that supoposed to be a joke, seeing as this thread is about destroying nature? ha ha ha
and im sorry, i didnt realise i was only allowed to go in to certain threads, maybe youd like to tell me which ones i an allowed to enter
are you concerend about the damage to the environment by meat and dairy production?
Yup.
sheothebudworths
Up the bum - no babies!!!
Yeah - I've bought 'em straight off the fishermen bringing in the catch in India a good few times and then cooked them up myself.....<gurgles>
XerxesVargas
formerly MrMalcontent
...I didnt know any of this until quite recently so have stopped eating prawns - but I may pinch a couple off someone's plate now and again
Again, just try and get british one and all's cool.
Cloud
Omar Commin!
Man it doesn't suprise me to learn people get bumped off over prawns cos I love them like a drug!
The trick is to get raw prawns and never cooked.
I usually marinate raw kings in olive oil, garlic, freshly chopped tarragon, lemon zest and juice and then skewer em up for the barby or sometimes wok fry them with garlic, ginger, spring onion and a chopped chilli.
The king of appetizers, I can thing of nothing better than prawns while drinking a nice glass of wine
The trick is to get raw prawns and never cooked.
I usually marinate raw kings in olive oil, garlic, freshly chopped tarragon, lemon zest and juice and then skewer em up for the barby or sometimes wok fry them with garlic, ginger, spring onion and a chopped chilli.
The king of appetizers, I can thing of nothing better than prawns while drinking a nice glass of wine
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
Man it doesn't suprise me to learn people get bumped off over prawns cos I love them like a drug!
The trick is to get raw prawns and never cooked.
I usually marinate raw kings in olive oil, garlic, freshly chopped tarragon, lemon zest and juice and then skewer em up for the barby or sometimes wok fry them with garlic, ginger, spring onion and a chopped chilli.
The king of appetizers, I can thing of nothing better than prawns while drinking a nice glass of wine
Prawns is the drug, and I need to score.
