Charleston, SC - There is sufficient food to feed everyone in the world. Nonetheless, there are countless starving, hungry, and food-insecure people all over the planet, including right here in the United States. The challenge has long been the economics and politics of global food distribution and not necessarily of overall food production. Future food sources are literally crawling around us and washing up on our shores every day. Sure, seagrasses, seaweeds, sea vegetables, eels, and insects are not top-of-the-menu items for most of us, but they are abundant, rich in nutrients, and increasingly prepared in delicious ways. I’ve had all manner of sea creatures and insects – grasshoppers in Houston, ants in Bogotá , sea anemone in Shanghai , and eels in Tokyo, for example – but those are the curiosities of a first-world eater. We’re talking here about the potential to feed millions of people higher-nutrient food than most U.S. processed products. Of course, the questions are alwa...
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