Dan Barber has known many fish in his life. But he loved only two.
The first one was a love affair that lasted several months, it was a sustainably farmed fish of fantastic taste and beauty.
With 90% of the global fish population having collapsed due to overfishing, sustainably farmed fish is the best, maybe the only option. Dan fell out nof love with this fish when he
discovered that the sustainable protein the fish were fed at the fish farm was made of chicken. What's sustainable about feeding fish with chicken?
The second love affair was true love. Dan
met this fish in Spain. It came to the plate shimmery and overcooked, and it still tasted delicious! What could make a fish taste this good? A fish farm south of Spain made great fish on a 27,000 acre
fishfarm by reversing previous ecological destruction: They reverted the process of draining wetlands by pulling the water back into the canals and with that re-flooding the land. But how does this
make the fish taste so good? What are they eating? The system is so healthy that the fish don't have to be fed at all. And on top of that, the farmer sees it as a great success that 20% of
the fish is being lost to a thriving bird population that feeds off the new fish farm. And the fish farm even purifies the normally contaminated water that is being pulled into the system.. But how
do you feed the world with this? Dan doesn't like this question. The idea of feeding more people more cheaply is not an ecological model, but it is a business liquidation model that has failed.
Because global hunger is not the result of diminished supply but by diminished resources. The goal has to be to set every community up to feed itself, and humankind has 2 million years of job
experience in this. Like the fish farm in Spain
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