I’m not an environmentalist,
I’m not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist. Dan Barber
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I’m not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist. Dan Barber
For the past 50 years, we’ve been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It’s hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love – the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish – they’ve collapsed. Dan Barber
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we’re looking at – in our lifetime – great collapses of food services. Dan Barber
At the end of the day, yes. It’s all about the marbling and maybe a few other things along the way. But intramuscular fat, that’s where you get a lot of flavor. Fat carries the flavor but in the last 50 years it’s been bred out of pigs. When American chicken exploded in the 70’s … Read more
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. Dan Barber
Vegetables deplete soil. They’re extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals. Dan Barber
The greenhouse is driven by three things: economy, flavor, ecology. Where ecology is what’s being grown in this micro-ecology that can simultaneously thrive and better the soil/rotation, not just the flavor. Dan Barber
In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point. Dan Barber
It’s a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process. Dan Barber
I said, ‘Don, what’s sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?’ Dan Barber