The speaker initially didn't think slaughter was a major issue for shrimps, but witnessing how they were pulled out of water and piled on top of each other made them reconsider. There are concerns that the current method of slaughter, immersion in ice water slurry, may prolong their suffering. The speaker suggests rendering shrimps unconscious through electric shock and then immersing them in ice as a more humane method of slaughter.
We are celebrating our 10th podcast episode - Yay! To celebrate, we interviewed Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla from the Shrimp Welfare Initiative who inspired the name of our podcast, How I Learned to Love Shrimp.
Shrimp Welfare Project is the only organisation solely dedicated to improving the lives of shrimp. In this episode we talk about the case for working on shrimp, the current scale of and practices within shrimp farming, as well as what Shrimp Welfare Project have learned over the past 2 years.
Thanks to all of our listeners so far and we look forward to the next 10!
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