Sustainable Ocean Farming
Posted on April 3, 2016 Comments (5)
Farming the Sea: why eating kelp is good for you and good for the environment
There are serious problems with our ability to grow healthy food for the number of people we have today (and will have in the future). Innovations have allowed us to feed ourselves. But the damage done to topsoil and other damage including pollution of our rivers is huge. Overfishing and factory farms are keeping us going today but are doing immense damage and are not sustainable.
Seed companies abusing the corrupt government patent systems creates even more damage. We need better solutions. We have many people doing great things but we need to do much more. Ocean farming is one of many areas we should expand. And we should greatly reduce the use of factory farms, antibiotics for livestock, overfishing and the overuse of pesticides.
How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution
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I never thought climate change had anything to do with my life. But it does. From my vantage point, climate change is not an environmental issue at all”Š—”Šit’s an economic issue.
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As ocean farmers, we reject aquaculture’s obsession with monoculture, an obsession similar to that of modern land farming. Our goal is diversity. It’s a sea-basket approach:We grow two types of seaweeds, four kinds of shellfish, and we harvest salt. But with over 10,000 edible plants in the ocean, we’ve barely scratched the surface.
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Instead of repeating history we’re building infrastructure from seed-to-harvest-to-market. We’re starting nonprofit hatcheries so that our farmers can access low-cost seed. We’re creating ocean seed banks so that the Monsantos of the world can’t privatize the source of our food and livelihoods.
Related: SelFISHing – The State of the Oceans (2011) – Rethinking the Food Production System (2008)
Categories: Life Science, Products
Tags: climate change, economy, farming, food, green, ocean, seafood
5 Responses to “Sustainable Ocean Farming”
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April 14th, 2016 @ 1:58 pm
In my area all rivers are drying up and the temperature is rising. Climate change concerns everyone.
April 23rd, 2016 @ 10:40 am
Climate change concerns everyone.
May 28th, 2016 @ 12:36 am
Hats off to these ocean farmers. Too bad the media doesn’t cover these guys. The real heroes 🙁 – Thanks for doing this.
June 14th, 2016 @ 3:07 am
Commendable effort, Everyone ought to be concerned of the climate
June 17th, 2017 @ 12:44 pm
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