Sustainable Food Sources Quotes
Seaweed was been eaten by the Japanese for thousands of years. Most other people do not view seaweed as an editable food. Yet it is quite nutritious, and Smith is breeding new strains that are even more so, very much as we have done with fruits ad vegetables on land. His view is that with Global Warming, over-fishing of the oceans, and higher and higher costs of food as we now know it, seaweed will become a major food staple throughs the world. Actually, Campbell’s Soup and many other companies producing canned and packaged foods, has been using MSG extracted from seaweed for years, It is a major flavor enhancer. But at this time they do not use the more nutritious leaves as the Japanese do, Smith argues that this will change as there is almost unlimited ocean farming “land” as seaweed can grow in 3 dimensions and requires much less labor, fertilizer and pesticides than land farming for equal amounts of healthy food.
