{"id":191,"date":"2011-01-08T19:50:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:50:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-08T19:50:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:50:01","slug":"bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/bayou\/","title":{"rendered":"We are all children of the bayou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"373\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/6a00d83451b5a569e20147e1629e58970b-250wi\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video gives a glimpse into the lives of shrimp fishers post-BP disaster. The fisherfolk of the bayou provide shrimp, oysters and crabs for the entire country. We are what we eat, and so to some extent we are all offspring of the bayou. The chart below gives a picture of the troubled industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b5a569e20147e162acad970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shrimp\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e20147e162acad970b image-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/6a00d83451b5a569e20147e1629e58970b-250wi\" title=\"Shrimp\" \/><\/a> <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b5a569e20147e1629e58970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SHRIMP-4\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b5a569e20147e1629e58970b\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/6a00d83451b5a569e20147e1629e58970b-250wi\" style=\"width: 220px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"SHRIMP-4\" \/><\/a> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/07\/us\/07shrimp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Son of the Bayou, Torn over the shrimping life<\/a> is the story of Aaron Greco and the shaky existence of wild shrimp &quot;farmers&quot; in southern Louisiana. The photo is of Aaron with his girlfriend, Melanie Fink, 17, after a long day of shrimping. They lean against his prized yellow Mustang last fall outside their favorite ice cream shop in Chalmette, La.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend <em>Bayou Farewell<\/em>: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana&#39;s Cajun Coast. In this inspiring book by Mike Tidwell, you will get to know and appreciate the Cajun people supplying a significant portion of our food. (<a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2005\/10\/bayou-farewell\" target=\"_blank\">Interview with Mike about <em>Bayou Farewell<\/em><\/a>) The accounts of once-solid land and wetlands rapidly turning into open water (25-30 square miles a year!) is astounding. Part of the United States is subsiding into the vast Gulf of Mexico every day.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>The following are my reflections from my trip to the area in October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Far End of the World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Kang Bartlett | October 20, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Evan pointed to fishing hamlets on the map he had brought of southeastern Louisiana. Only there were no names. \u201cThe town is about here,\u201d Evan explained. \u201cAnd while this surrounding area looks like land on the map, now it is all water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou mean like swampy wetlands with tall grasses?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. Open water as far as you can see. The road disappears right about here. It has eroded along with the land as the sea water comes in farther and kills the grasses and the roots that had kept the soil.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video gives a glimpse into the lives of shrimp fishers post-BP disaster. The fisherfolk of the bayou provide shrimp, oysters and crabs for the entire country. We are what we eat, and so to some extent we are all offspring of the bayou. The chart below gives a picture of the troubled industry.\r\n\r\nThe Son of the Bayou, Torn over the shrimping life is the story of Aaron Greco and the shaky existence of wild shrimp &#8220;farmers&#8221; in southern Louisiana. The photo is of Aaron with his girlfriend, Melanie Fink, 17, after a long day of shrimping. They lean against his prized yellow Mustang last fall outside their favorite ice cream shop in Chalmette, La.\r\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-\r\nUnfortunately, like almost every resource-rich place and country in the world from Cameroon to Guatemala, systematic extraction of resources has been Louisiana\u2019s sorry history. The riches are exploited using local labor and profits depart for distant corporate headquarters. When people and resources are exhausted, impoverished communities and destroyed ecosystems are what remain. Capital says sayonara to search out new resources and new profits.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,444,445,34,446,447,448,449,36,450],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bayou","tag-fisher","tag-food","tag-gulf","tag-land-loss","tag-louisiana","tag-power","tag-presbyterian","tag-shrimp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We are all children of the bayou - Food and Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/bayou\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We are all children of the bayou\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The video gives a glimpse into the lives of shrimp fishers post-BP disaster. 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