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467. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

Freakonomics Radio

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The New Food Revolution

The collapse of the cod industry was a tragedy for newfoundland. For smith, it was an inflection point. He decided to leave alaska and move back to the only place he'd ever thought of as home. He took night classes at the local university and got a job on a salmon farm. He thought this would be a bright future. It was just iowa pig farming at sea, pesticides, antibiotics. The fish tasted terrible. In california, 90 % of the squid go to asia to be processed and then come back to the us. To be eaten.

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