Thought for Food

Remember when I didn’t eat much meat? Well I do now — local, farm-raised chicken, mostly  — and Dan Barber explains why. All that fish I ate last year just wasn’t sustainable.

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Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish | Video on TED.com

When a Fish Farm becomes an ecological network…  Fish are fed through their natural habitat, predators are encouraged to sustain a healthy balance, and impurities and pollution are eliminated through a natural water purification system. What an amazing model of ecological sustainability and productive synergy of natural systems.

Dan Barber speaks on the current failure of agribusiness and the question: How to feed the world, with clarity and insight.  He points to the importance of using ecological models rather than business farming, creating farms that aren’t worlds unto themselves, farms that restore instead of deplete, and farmers that are experts in relationships.