"The availability of fish is a food security issue. We need to stop our first world fleets taking fish from the mouths of the poor. The EU fleet goes all up and down the coast of Africa. The same thing goes on in the Pacific."

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Source : "Are We Nearing the End of the Line for Edible Ocean Fish?". Interview with Mark Karlin, truthout.org. July 19, 2011.

Charles Clover

#World Quotes #Poor Quotes #Food Security Quotes

“What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.”
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
“Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.”

Source : Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.22, Random House
“While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
“I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.”
“I think everybody gets caught up in superstitions. But I don't put much stock in them ... knock on wood.”
“It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.”

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