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We're going to talk about shrimp today. We're talking about the shrimp industry.

You got an email from the Outlaw Ocean Project who we've had on before, did quite a few episodes

kind of about where we learned all about the horrifying things that happen in international waters and that

happened, the things that happen to make sure the food that you love gets to your belly.

And that's kind of what today's episode is about. So with that, is it Josh or Joshua?

Josh is fine. Josh, can you introduce yourself? Sure. My name is Josh Farinelli, former general manager of Choice Canning

Company, Unit 4 in India. So you're here today to talk to us about shrimp and kind of your experiences working in India

and I wanted to get some really basic background stuff out of the way here at the top because I learned I'm not a big seafood person

I just you know I walk through the grocery store I see the bags it's just big bags of frozen shrimp. I don't think about where any of that comes from.

And reading the story that you're involved in,

I perhaps should be thinking a great deal more

about where my food comes from.

So can you tell me just,

give me some rough numbers of like the frozen food shrimp

industry where the stuff comes from how much frozen shrimp or is America is the

world eating every year?

Do we, you know, I mean, not to put you on the spot with hard numbers right at the top.

So in terms of the frozen shrimp that we consume over here,

it's, you know, in sales volumes, it's billions and billions of dollars a year worth of product that the US

consumer is is buying every year. And how many shrimp is that? I'm joking.

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