Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie’s honeymoon he’s enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 19:02)
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Matthew Weilenmann commented on Mar 8 2013
Firstly, it is difficult for any place to get upwellings or an input of enough nutrients to sustain an algae population that will feed a fish farm. Secondly, flamingos flying off course to an unnatural habitat to feed on an unnatural fishery is not sustainable, anthropogenic farming affecting natural avian populations. This is an isolated area he refers to his entire speech, and cannot, I repeat, cannot be replicated over and over. He gives one example to try and state that this kind of agriculture should happen to feed the people, but it cannot. Only way to feed our population is to have fertilizer, and big machinery. Only 8% of our farms create over 75% of our food, his model is not possible…
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Tina Carter commented on Feb 29 2012
How did a Genentech recruiting ad get attached to this talk? Seems an odd pairing.
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Humphrey Bogart commented on Mar 11 2010
World hunger is extremely important, i attended several lectures on sustainability at the University of Vermont and have brought what I learned back to New York City to implement, especially in urban gardening and the local fish trade, to find out more please visit:
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Stephan Fassmann commented on Mar 10 2010
How to feed the world? That is a big question. A technique I found just last month uses the same techniques to produce huge amounts of food in small spaces just like the place in this talk.
TED, you really need to get Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton or one of the other permaculture founders. Just look up the Dervaes family on YouTube. They are doing amazing things that can change how we feed the world. YouTube has all kinds of amazing example of permaculture just search on that term.