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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:
Humane Society of the U.S. wildlife trade
program director Teresa Telecki, quoted from the
December Utne Reader: “We want to help people rise
from poverty, but not through trophy hunting. We’d
rather see them earning money from cottage industries
such as fish farming and shoemaking.” Along with
overlooking that fish feel pain, too, Telecki failed to
note the role of offshore fish farming in promoting the
killing of seals and sea lions, the frequent massacre of
fish-eating birds at fish farms of all sorts, and habitat
damage by aquaculture ranging from the destruction of
coastal mangrove swamps in Southeast Asia to the pollution
of inland waterways almost everywhere inland
that fish farming has caught on. Telecki also didn’t
stipulate nonleather shoemaking.