• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Oysters lack the capacity to consciously be aware of themselves

    Fish too btw, as far as we know. Lizard brain is an evolution of fish brain, they are basically biological automata.

    Makes one think, live getting on land was it getting into hard mode.

    one of the most sustainable foods we can make leading to less planetary harm than a lot of plant crops even

    I did read about damaging effects of oyster farms though, the ones with cages, because of their poop/piss(?). But sure, because hundreds in one place.

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      2 months ago

      I did read about damaging effects of oyster farms though

      Yeah no monoculture farm is without it’s damage, for sure, but oysters are real low on the list. They are filter feeders so don’t need any additional food source or fertilizer you just seed them somewhere and pull them out as needed. A single one filters something like fifty gallons of water a day, capture carbon for their shells, and they’re incredible at pulling heavy metals out of the water but that’s not something they’re utilized for at scale afaik because then humans wouldn’t want to eat those ones