A biotech company on the West Coast is about eight months away from releasing lab-grown popcorn shrimp on the public. America's most popular seafood will not contain any seafood.
Americans consume about four billion pounds of seafood annually, and about a quarter of that is shrimp, says Popular Science. And while shrimp are nutritious, besides being delicious, fishing for wild shrimp leaves a carbon footprint that is 10 times higher than that of beef.
But even worse is the amount of corruption behind the harvest of shrimp. Most of our shrimp are brought in from Thailand, and according to an Associated Press investigation, consumers in the U.S. and across Europe eat shrimp peeled by slaves.
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