Saturday, September 05, 2020
Special post--Thai shrimp, western consumers, Burmese workers--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aue2VLD2icA
You won't believe this, but this video was recommended for me by Google.
The next one is abt Norwegian farmed salmon.
I buy my shrimp and salmon, a $20 package every 3-4 weeks at Whole Foods. bc it is the only supermarket now near me.
I am eating more beans and bean products and vegs, since Jan 2020 to 10 years ago.
The thing with beans if you have to eat a lot of beans to get the same amount as animal protein.
My mother and many others in Burma died of liver cancer.
My sister in law ( a pathologist's) husband, a radiologist himself, told me in mid 1970s that liver cancer is very prevalent among urban Burmese.
(after autopsy of a Burmese business women Ma Myint, who was vegetarian for religious reasons, doctor who performed autopsy saw her liver and asked "Did she eat a vegetarian diet for long periods of time?)--I know she ate mostly mushrooms.
Dr K L said that rural people did not get liver cancer so much bc they ate fish paste and fish sauce.
But I do not know if that's true now or not.
A former economics MA student of mine is a mangrove specialist.
In 2006 I went with a student group from Chulalongkorn Univ. to
1. A medium size shrimp shelling workhouse
2. A bigger tuna canning factory (but the tuna themselves were quite small, abt 10 " in length)
both in Mahachai (Big Fort) area, across the river from Bangkok.
ALL the workers were Burmese.
I have never been to Chantaburi in the SE of Thailand.
KMK
9-5-2020
You won't believe this, but this video was recommended for me by Google.
The next one is abt Norwegian farmed salmon.
I buy my shrimp and salmon, a $20 package every 3-4 weeks at Whole Foods. bc it is the only supermarket now near me.
I am eating more beans and bean products and vegs, since Jan 2020 to 10 years ago.
The thing with beans if you have to eat a lot of beans to get the same amount as animal protein.
My mother and many others in Burma died of liver cancer.
My sister in law ( a pathologist's) husband, a radiologist himself, told me in mid 1970s that liver cancer is very prevalent among urban Burmese.
(after autopsy of a Burmese business women Ma Myint, who was vegetarian for religious reasons, doctor who performed autopsy saw her liver and asked "Did she eat a vegetarian diet for long periods of time?)--I know she ate mostly mushrooms.
Dr K L said that rural people did not get liver cancer so much bc they ate fish paste and fish sauce.
But I do not know if that's true now or not.
A former economics MA student of mine is a mangrove specialist.
In 2006 I went with a student group from Chulalongkorn Univ. to
1. A medium size shrimp shelling workhouse
2. A bigger tuna canning factory (but the tuna themselves were quite small, abt 10 " in length)
both in Mahachai (Big Fort) area, across the river from Bangkok.
ALL the workers were Burmese.
I have never been to Chantaburi in the SE of Thailand.
KMK
9-5-2020
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