Judith’s Reviews > Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture > Status Update

"In the late 1970s, shrimp farmers turbocharged the ageo-old shrimp-farming process by adding to their ponds post-larval shrimp caught in the wild or raised in hatcheries. They supplemented natural feeds with nutrient slurries, chemicals, and antibiotics...While traditional shriimp farms yielded less than 450 pounds per acre, th enew factory-style outfits harvested as much as 89000 pounds per acre....

"We rail against exploitation of low-paid workers in Asia as we drive twenty minutes to the Big Box to save three bucks on tube socks and a dollar on underpants. We fume over the mistreatment of animals by agribusiness but freak out at an uptick in food prices. We lecture our kids on social responsibility and then buy them toys assembled by destitute child workers on some far flung foreign shore."

"We rails against exploitation of low-paid workers in Asia as we drive twenty minutes to the Big Box to save three bucks on tube socks and a dollar on underpants. We fume over the mistreatment of animals by agribusiness but freak out at an uptick in food prices. We lecture our kids on social responsibility and then buy them toys assembled by destitute child workers on some far flung foreign shore."