Raising Shrimp (2013)

Documentary Americas most popular and iconic seafood is really a cheap foreign import Raising Shrimp paints the economic and medical perils of an outsourced food supplyand follows Ted an engineer and Andy an ecologist on a quest for a better shrimp In Texas they find fishermen pushed from riches to rags by imports In Belize they find shrimp farmers striving for a natural balance with jungles and lagoons but again globalization takes its toll and the best farm collapses Back home in the US pioneering farmers harness the power of bacteria to grow shrimp inside a darkened warehouse without any waste Encouraged Andy and Ted see that raising shrimp this way offers hope for all Andy Danylchuk Ted Caplow