Erin Spampinato is the Georgetown, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. Erin has held staff writer and editor positions at a number of mission-driven organizations, and her freelance journalism has appeared in various publications, including Electric Literature and The Guardian. She is also the author of numerous academic publications on the topics of gender, literature, and history. Erin holds a PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Smith College.
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Hagerstown, Maryland, U.S.A.-based nonprofit Mercy for Animals has called out leading U.K. supermarkets, including Asda, Lidl, Aldi, Morrisons, Co-op, Iceland, and Waitrose, for sourcing prawns from farms using practices considered to be inhumane, including eyestalk ablation and ice-slurry slaughter.
Eyestalk ablation involves removing one or two of the eyes of a female shrimp, which encourages her to lay eggs faster than she would
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