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The tuna dilemma: to eat or not to eat?

The tuna dilemma: to eat or not to eat?

FromSlow Food, the podcast


The tuna dilemma: to eat or not to eat?

FromSlow Food, the podcast

ratings:
Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Jun 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Tuna is a big predator and consumes a wide variety of other fish, making it a vital component of the sea ecosystems. It’s also one of the most expensive fish on the planet. Yet tuna is also an affordable and widely-available source of protein around the world, and herein lies the problem. 
Can fishing Tuna ever be sustainable? Which guidelines can we follow to buy the Tuna Fish with the least impact? Is Tuna a healthy food? And most of all, can we still eat Tuna? 
Guests:
Jack Coulton, communication & events at Slow Food International;
Alison Laurie Neilson, Researcher at Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences, CICS.NOVA at the University of Lisbon;
Andrea Del Vecchi, dietist and researcher at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy.

Host & production: Valentina Gritti
Music: Leonardo Prieto Dorantes
Useful resources: 
Oceana study on Tuna fraud: https://oceana.org/reports/oceana-study-reveals-seafood-fraud-nationwide/ 
Article by The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2016/jul/27/is-there-any-tuna-thats-to-eat-tesco 
Guide on how to buy Tuna: https://theconversation.com/sustainable-shopping-how-to-buy-tuna-without-biting-a-chunk-out-of-the-oceans-86229
Alison's book "A sea full of life: visions from the Azores" https://saudadetoronto.com/products/book-a-sea-full-of-life-by-alison-laurie-neilson 
 
A project by Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN)
 
 
Released:
Jun 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (84)

Our food chain is full of surprises and our food is handled by people you will most likely never meet. Where did your coffee come from? Who grew your cocoa for your chocolate? Who made your bread? We are about to start a journey together, finding our way through the food systems. We want to give a stage to the people, whose voices are often not taken into consideration, or who are simply overlooked in the debate around food. We want to demonstrate that we all contribute to a more sustainable food system, that everyone has a story to tell and that there’s a lesson in every single one of them. — Production by Slow Food Youth Network Hosted by Valentina Gritti Music by Leonardo Prieto Dorantes