Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 336 pages
• Published by: Bloomsbury USA
• Edition: 1st Edition April 29, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1596912251
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1596912250
• Book Dimensions: 6 x 2.5 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Review


“In this whirlwind, worldwide tour of fisheries, Grescoe (The Devil’s Picnic) whiplashes readers from ecological devastation to edible ecstasy and back again.”   —Publishers Weekly

“Bottomfeeder highlights the diversity, complexity, and fragility of our oceans. It’s an important reminder that we all have to take better care of our oceans if we want seafood in our future.”—David Suzuki, co-founder, David Suzuki FoundationPraise for The Devil’s Picnic:

“Grescoe is of the Anthony Bourdain school of reportage, treating the reader as a sidekick on a rebellious adventure…not for the faint of heart.”—Washington Post

“Vivid and entertaining…Grescoe roams the world to tell the stories of various passions, most of them edible.”—New York Times Book Review

“awesome…[A] savory and powerful scrutiny into the psychology, market and politics of prohibition.”—Publishers Weekly

“Wildly entertaining…when it comes to comestibles, Grescoe is fearless.”—National Geographic Adventure

Product Description
An eye-opening look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef.

Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious—and humane—plate of seafood. What he discovered shocked him. From North American Red Lobsters to fish farms and research centers in China, Bottomfeeder takes readers on an illuminating tour through the $55-billion-dollar-a-year seafood industry. Grescoe looks at how out-of-control pollution, unregulated fishing practices, and climate change affect what ends up on our plate. More than a screed against a multibillion-dollar industry, however, this is also a balanced and practical guide to eating, as Grescoe explains to readers which fish are best for our environment, our seas, and our bodies.

At once entertaining and illuminating, Bottomfeeder is a thoroughly enjoyable look at the world’s cuisines and an examination of the fishing and farming practices we too easily take for granted.