Podcast
Candace
The book was referenced when discussing the history of shrimp farming, specifically detailing the bizarre and brutal breakthrough of eye-stalk ablation to speed up shrimp puberty. It also told the story of a specific person from Myanmar who became enslaved in the Thai shrimping industry after crossing the border looking for a better life.
The single great breakthrough came in a fittingly bizarre and brutal manner. Then, as now, those trying to make aquaculture work raised their shrimp in overcrowded tubs. And as their shrimp swam aroun...
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The book was referenced when discussing the history of shrimp farming, specifically detailing the bizarre and brutal breakthrough of eye-stalk ablation to speed up shrimp puberty. It also told the story of a specific person from Myanmar who became enslaved in the Thai shrimping industry after crossing the border looking for a better life.
The single great breakthrough came in a fittingly bizarre and brutal manner. Then, as now, those trying to make aquaculture work raised their shrimp in overcrowded tubs. And as their shrimp swam around and around in circles in these tubs, their outside eye would rub against the side of the tank. And slowly, after God knows how many circles, in God knows what type of crowded environment, the outermost eyeball of the outermost shrimp in these tubs would eventually get rubbed right off, erased by friction.
It turns out that for as of yet biologically unexplained reasons, a female shrimp who loses a single eyeball gets fast-tracked through puberty, her ocular loss unleashing a cascade of hormones that begets ovaries in as little as three days.
The Secret Life of Groceries, tells the story of a specific person who became a fisherman, not by choice, who came from Myanmar to Thailand looking for a better life and wound up as a slave to the shrimping industry.
