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8. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Problem With Growing Food Under Water

Native seaweeds contain more vitum in sea than orange juice, more calcium than milk and more protein than soe beans. Smith may have cracked the processing issue, but there are other challenges. The trouble with growing food under water is you can't control your soil. And this gets to perhaps the biggest challenge for a kelp farmer, how to find customers.

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