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ParticipantHi Threadkiller,
I think you may want to put more info in before these experts will chime in:
1. How many more years do you have to pay your current.
2. Current principal amount = ?
3. What rate do you think you want to refinance?
4. Do you refinance thru bank or broker?
ParticipantHi Threadkiller,
I think you may want to put more info in before these experts will chime in:
1. How many more years do you have to pay your current.
2. Current principal amount = ?
3. What rate do you think you want to refinance?
4. Do you refinance thru bank or broker?
ParticipantHi Threadkiller,
I think you may want to put more info in before these experts will chime in:
1. How many more years do you have to pay your current.
2. Current principal amount = ?
3. What rate do you think you want to refinance?
4. Do you refinance thru bank or broker?
ParticipantHi Threadkiller,
I think you may want to put more info in before these experts will chime in:
1. How many more years do you have to pay your current.
2. Current principal amount = ?
3. What rate do you think you want to refinance?
4. Do you refinance thru bank or broker?
ParticipantIn China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters
By DAVID BARBOZAFUQING, China — Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.
Fuqing is one of the centers of a booming industry that over two decades has transformed this country into the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, and the fastest-growing supplier to the United States.
But that growth is threatened by the two most glaring environmental weaknesses in China: acute water shortages and water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides. The fish farms, in turn, are discharging wastewater that further pollutes the water supply.
“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. “There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They’re all discharging water here, fouling up other farms.”
Farmers have coped with the toxic waters by mixing illegal veterinary drugs and pesticides into fish feed, which helps keep their stocks alive yet leaves poisonous and carcinogenic residues in seafood, posing health threats to consumers.
Environmental degradation, in other words, has become a food safety problem, and scientists say the long-term risks of consuming contaminated seafood could lead to higher rates of cancer and liver disease and other afflictions.
————————————-Oops, I ‘ve been eating these Chinese seafood. Definitely time to cut back.
Life is already short.
ParticipantIn China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters
By DAVID BARBOZAFUQING, China — Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.
Fuqing is one of the centers of a booming industry that over two decades has transformed this country into the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, and the fastest-growing supplier to the United States.
But that growth is threatened by the two most glaring environmental weaknesses in China: acute water shortages and water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides. The fish farms, in turn, are discharging wastewater that further pollutes the water supply.
“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. “There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They’re all discharging water here, fouling up other farms.”
Farmers have coped with the toxic waters by mixing illegal veterinary drugs and pesticides into fish feed, which helps keep their stocks alive yet leaves poisonous and carcinogenic residues in seafood, posing health threats to consumers.
Environmental degradation, in other words, has become a food safety problem, and scientists say the long-term risks of consuming contaminated seafood could lead to higher rates of cancer and liver disease and other afflictions.
————————————-Oops, I ‘ve been eating these Chinese seafood. Definitely time to cut back.
Life is already short.
ParticipantIn China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters
By DAVID BARBOZAFUQING, China — Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.
Fuqing is one of the centers of a booming industry that over two decades has transformed this country into the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, and the fastest-growing supplier to the United States.
But that growth is threatened by the two most glaring environmental weaknesses in China: acute water shortages and water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides. The fish farms, in turn, are discharging wastewater that further pollutes the water supply.
“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. “There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They’re all discharging water here, fouling up other farms.”
Farmers have coped with the toxic waters by mixing illegal veterinary drugs and pesticides into fish feed, which helps keep their stocks alive yet leaves poisonous and carcinogenic residues in seafood, posing health threats to consumers.
Environmental degradation, in other words, has become a food safety problem, and scientists say the long-term risks of consuming contaminated seafood could lead to higher rates of cancer and liver disease and other afflictions.
————————————-Oops, I ‘ve been eating these Chinese seafood. Definitely time to cut back.
Life is already short.
ParticipantIn China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters
By DAVID BARBOZAFUQING, China — Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.
Fuqing is one of the centers of a booming industry that over two decades has transformed this country into the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, and the fastest-growing supplier to the United States.
But that growth is threatened by the two most glaring environmental weaknesses in China: acute water shortages and water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides. The fish farms, in turn, are discharging wastewater that further pollutes the water supply.
“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. “There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They’re all discharging water here, fouling up other farms.”
Farmers have coped with the toxic waters by mixing illegal veterinary drugs and pesticides into fish feed, which helps keep their stocks alive yet leaves poisonous and carcinogenic residues in seafood, posing health threats to consumers.
Environmental degradation, in other words, has become a food safety problem, and scientists say the long-term risks of consuming contaminated seafood could lead to higher rates of cancer and liver disease and other afflictions.
————————————-Oops, I ‘ve been eating these Chinese seafood. Definitely time to cut back.
Life is already short.
ParticipantIn China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters
By DAVID BARBOZAFUQING, China — Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.
Fuqing is one of the centers of a booming industry that over two decades has transformed this country into the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, and the fastest-growing supplier to the United States.
But that growth is threatened by the two most glaring environmental weaknesses in China: acute water shortages and water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides. The fish farms, in turn, are discharging wastewater that further pollutes the water supply.
“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. “There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They’re all discharging water here, fouling up other farms.”
Farmers have coped with the toxic waters by mixing illegal veterinary drugs and pesticides into fish feed, which helps keep their stocks alive yet leaves poisonous and carcinogenic residues in seafood, posing health threats to consumers.
Environmental degradation, in other words, has become a food safety problem, and scientists say the long-term risks of consuming contaminated seafood could lead to higher rates of cancer and liver disease and other afflictions.
————————————-Oops, I ‘ve been eating these Chinese seafood. Definitely time to cut back.
Life is already short.
ParticipantIt’s nice up there.
Some positives: cheaper, beautiful nature around the city, nice public transportation, a little more compassionate oriented government, small town feel…great people.
Some negatives: cold, rainy, dark, parts of town have so many strip clubs and adult entertainments (a plus to some), too many trees, no HOA = uncut grass in many places, homeless in downtown. Cheaper housing but not that big of a difference. Still have some ugly bridges (to some they are nice).
ParticipantIt’s nice up there.
Some positives: cheaper, beautiful nature around the city, nice public transportation, a little more compassionate oriented government, small town feel…great people.
Some negatives: cold, rainy, dark, parts of town have so many strip clubs and adult entertainments (a plus to some), too many trees, no HOA = uncut grass in many places, homeless in downtown. Cheaper housing but not that big of a difference. Still have some ugly bridges (to some they are nice).
ParticipantIt’s nice up there.
Some positives: cheaper, beautiful nature around the city, nice public transportation, a little more compassionate oriented government, small town feel…great people.
Some negatives: cold, rainy, dark, parts of town have so many strip clubs and adult entertainments (a plus to some), too many trees, no HOA = uncut grass in many places, homeless in downtown. Cheaper housing but not that big of a difference. Still have some ugly bridges (to some they are nice).
ParticipantIt’s nice up there.
Some positives: cheaper, beautiful nature around the city, nice public transportation, a little more compassionate oriented government, small town feel…great people.
Some negatives: cold, rainy, dark, parts of town have so many strip clubs and adult entertainments (a plus to some), too many trees, no HOA = uncut grass in many places, homeless in downtown. Cheaper housing but not that big of a difference. Still have some ugly bridges (to some they are nice).
ParticipantIt’s nice up there.
Some positives: cheaper, beautiful nature around the city, nice public transportation, a little more compassionate oriented government, small town feel…great people.
Some negatives: cold, rainy, dark, parts of town have so many strip clubs and adult entertainments (a plus to some), too many trees, no HOA = uncut grass in many places, homeless in downtown. Cheaper housing but not that big of a difference. Still have some ugly bridges (to some they are nice).
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