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...livestock industry, mostly pigs and poultry, up from 10% in 1988. If current trends continue, demand for fish oil will outstrip supply within a decade and the same could happen for fishmeal by 2050, says Stanford's Naylor. Already, the global supply of fishmeal has dropped from 7.7 million metric tons to 5.8 million metric tons between 1994 and 2005, according to the International Fishmeal and Fish Oil Organization...
...meaning of sustainability, however, is a moveable metric, shaped, at least in the U.S., largely by restaurants where 70% of seafood consumption occurs. "As chefs, we need to celebrate diversity in the oceans so that we are not relying too heavily on any one species," avows Peter Hoffman, executive chef at Manhattan's Savoy restaurant and board member of the Chefs Collaborative, which is committed to sustainability. The challenge is partly creative: making tilapia, for instance, taste as delectable as seared...
...fact a vast expanse of white nets). If the grapes aren't picked exactly as they reach maturity, the thin-skinned berries shrivel on the vines--which, because they thrive on steep slopes, demand that harvesting be done by hand. Yields are low--about 2 tons per acre (5 metric tons per hectare, which translates into about 350 cases of wine). Sauvignon Blanc vines would yield three times as much. Add to that the risk that the fruit will be unstable during the fermenting process (although we'll forgo the science lesson on the effect of Pinot's native yeasts...
...approximately 250 metric tons of CO2 emissions that would have resulted from generating the same amount of energy as these two renewable energy projects would pale by comparison to the more than 2.5 billion metric tons of CO2 generated yearly at conventional American power plants...
...leash and walk him around until he pees? I just need a few months with him to find out some stuff. Like: What would he pee on? What would he chase as he ran around in circles? If he saw another guy on a leash, what metric would he use to decide whether to fight him or sniff his rear end? Can he really taste the difference between organic and nonorganic dog food? Do squirrels have a filet-mignon section? I need to endow some chair to study this stuff...