Raising Shrimp

Jan 1 2013 Not Rated 0h 52m
Documentary, News

Documentary - America's most popular and iconic seafood is really a cheap foreign import. Raising Shrimp paints the economic and medical perils of an outsourced food supply,and follows Ted, an engineer, and Andy, an ecologist, on a quest for a better shrimp. In Texas, they find fishermen pushed from riches to rags by imports. In Belize, they find shrimp farmers striving for a natural balance with jungles and lagoons, but again globalization takes its toll, and the best farm collapses. Back home in the U.S. pioneering farmers harness the power of bacteria to grow shrimp inside a darkened warehouse without any waste. Encouraged, Andy and Ted see that raising shrimp this way offers hope for all. - Andy Danylchuk, Ted Caplow

Plot

You are what you eat! Raising Shrimp will show you why America's most popular seafood is no longer produced in America, what that means for our health and environment, and how we can innovate a solution. Dive head first into a vivid, rarely-seen world of rugged fishermen and jungle laboratories, of exotic bacteria and teeming coral reefs, of Asian outsourcing and broken dreams before testing your nerve with some radical solutions for Raising Shrimp right here at home.

Written by

Ted Caplow, Sarah Curry

Directed by

Joe Cunningham

Cast

Ted Caplow, Andy Danylchuk

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