Andrew Zimmern

We have tons of myths about seafood.

It's too expensive.

It makes my house smell.

My kids won't eat it.

Ask any mother in Scandinavia or Japan or coastal Africa or anywhere else in the world where there's water and food that comes from it if their kids don't eat seafood.

Now, it's in America.

It's in America, right?

We have this problem.

We have done some irreparable damage to our planet.

Some man-made damage.

Some not necessarily man-made, but the solution to all of it is to protect our oceans, which produce a vast amount of oxygen and sequesters a lot of CO2.

And if we were able to eat more meals out of the ocean, we would eat fewer meals from the green economy, specifically from domesticated animals like chickens, pigs, goats, and lambs and cows.

Now, I love those animals.

I am not a vegan or vegetarian, although I eat less meat than I ever have in my life currently.

But the reason is, is that we're losing vast amounts of acreage on planet Earth every second, taking down forests to create arable land and

not to feed human beings, but to grow food, to feed animals that we eat.

So we are literally devouring our own planet.

It is the least sustainable, least regenerative action in human history.

The ocean has vast amount of food.

However, we only eat a narrow, narrow portion of it.