Tag: protein
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A river of protein
A lady chills on a platform surrounded by plastic buckets of iced seafood in the humid market in Cambodia: fish, eels, stingray, water snakes, prawns, cockles– a sea of protein. The Mekong River is the largest supplier of protein in the region with over 1,100 species of fish. Mekong is second in its bio-diversity only to…
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Stronger after a fishy history
Ny comes from a family of fishermen, and she has always sold fish. However, everything changed during the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s when all businesses were forced to shut down. Ny was forced to go to the countryside to work in the fields, while scholars and artists were tragically shot. When Ny described…
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