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467. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

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The Scalability Option for Kelp

Soy has an even worse brand name than agriculture because why? I mean, it's associated with massive monoculture. We can weave it into existing industries and have a really positive effect. And if the kelp is got a lot of biol fowling on it, that's really good for the lamd base farmer. It's packed full of these micro nutrients and nitrogen and carbon. Then we do bio plastics. There's some great companies creating packaging straws, and they're all compostable. And then the last income stream we see is blue carbon and nitrogen.

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