Farms: Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
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http://www.ted.com 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. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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Je recherche un stage en alimentation (je suis formation ingénieur en agroalimentaire) ça pourrais bien me botter ça !!!
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Feathers in feed, don't digest, they are used to boost measured protein. Very dishonest.
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4:14 is that Dan Ariely in the audience?
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i still dont get how feeding your fish to birds can benefit your farm . please someone explain me this
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I'm a little confused. If the chicken protein being fed to the fish is a by-product of chicken farming and does not drive up demand, then wouldn't feeding it to fish be a sustainable thing to do?
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One of my favourite TED talks ever. He hit the nail right on the head, and this is an issue of such deep importance to everyday life and our impacts on the world.
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Thank you Dan for a wonderful talk.
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I cant believe something like this of such scale exits. Worth for all agriculturalist to learn NEW definition of "sustainability" - high time we start doing our bit to protect our ecology.
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Dan Barber rocks!
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good to see sustainable farming. Too many environmental disasters from outdated practices.
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I love this concept like you all do, but consider that this is not a farm. Its essentially just harvesting at a low density from wild production, more like a ranch with very few inputs (if any, juveniles?). There cannot and will not be many of these in the world unless you can sell the product for 3 times the price. The whole reason we had to start farming fish was because of human population density issues. This extensive farming has to be subsidized and is not economically a viable option. Its awesome in theory, but not how we are going to feed the world, because people won't stop having kids. I've been involved in aquaculture projects in 8 countries, and this guy never addresses the question of economic viability (which makes the world turn), nor the idea that per unit area, its not producing enough to pay for the initial investment of land purchase. He also doesn't really answer the question he poses to himself of how are we going to feed the world. I like the talk, the guy and the idea, but please, understand the practicality of this and don't look at all commercial aquaculture as evil without considering each farm. We are learning as this young industry develops. (Also, keep in mind that we feed fish oil to most of our animals, which is not natural, so why is feeding chicken waste parts to carnivorous fish, the worst thing that's ever happened? It's something that should be kept minimal (I've never heard of anything like 30% in a non experimental setting), but lets not make fish farmers out to be devils while terrestrial farmers are doing the same and worse things).
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Read this guys book "The Third Plate". Best cookbook I have ever read with only one recipe. Leave Mother Nature alone, and she will thank you.
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Thank you, Dan.
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Thank you Dan. I am a vegetarian (do not eat fishes) but I bow to you this time.
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Like if you're here for bio
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Epic!!!!!! nuff said!
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Great talk. :D
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This is great, and I agree with 99% of what he's saying. But here's the problem, government, at least here in the U.S., is working against this type of production. Having communities which can "feed themselves" means less dependency on centralized government. Govt. trends in the last 10-20 years have meant MORE dependency on centralized government. Ironically, I'd bet that many in this audience support centralized government.
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Still one of my most favourite TED talks...
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I need to try this fish