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'They cannot compete with the prices that fish factories will pay': How demand for fish meal takes priority over feeding people


In this excerpt from "Every Last Fish," author Rose George examines the deep-rooted problems of the regulations surrounding fish meal — a product that's supposed to come from the discarded scraps of dead fish, but in reality removes huge quantities of food from people in West Africa who need it.

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