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reveals china's underwater hunt. zero. there are seven and a half billion people on earth and they all need to be bad. but producing food requires huge amounts of land water and is one of the major contributors to pollution and climate change. half the planet's habitable surface is cultivated for crops the forests are being cleared for industrial animal farming and commercial fishing is emptying our thieves of marine life. with the worldwide population

predicted to grow to ten billion by twenty fifty it's clear our planet kaante part of the pace something has to change. our muscle build on the east coast of the us where a community of scientists fishermen and foodies of redefining our relationship with the sea and i'm going to robbie in holland our scientists are wasting to futureproof our planet against i love of meat. for centuries we've been harvesting the oceans without much thought of sustainability and today we poison is much fish as we did fifty years ago the result is that the oceans have been depleted to a catastrophic lead on sustainable levels ninety percent of the fish stocks that we rely on being fully fished overfished. to make matters worse the use of our group chemical spose in the sea and on the land is creating dead zones areas of high

acidity and low oxygen which one of the big. routes to marine life there are already around five hundred of them were weighed the biggest in the gulf of mexico covering twenty three thousand square kilometers. for the seas to thrive far into the future we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with the oceans and here on the coast of connecticut to do just that. fishing is always been big business on the long island sound in recent decades industrial and agricultural pollutants kill the fish stocks have come here to meet some little coups tackling the problem. they are also right yeah thank you egypt thanks so much for having us thanks for coming in smith is an ocean farmer who's made it his mission to reconfigure how we harvest the sea ok welcome aboard. started. right in the good thing about the ocean farming is we don't need to chase fish right is

the quick run out right. used to be efficient yeah yeah i was in the bering sea fishing cod and crab just at the height of industrialized fishing and most the fish i was catching was going to mcdonald's for the fish sandwich that is the quintessential the epitome of the industrial fashion exactly so then you know i was on the bering sea in the cod stocks crashed a new for land back roads from so i went to become a farmer on the salmon farms because i was that he answered overfishing but it was just as bad right you know using pesticides and that by audix polluting you know we were essentially running pig farms at sea so i ended up down here to make remade myself as you know what were called the three d. ocean for what is the what is a three d. ocean farm. imagine an underwater garden where you're using the entire water column means we have a very small footprint vertical right. the entire farm is cultivated officers to

move lines and boys. like scaffolding grows from the horizontal lines closest to the surface then vertically downwards their muscles and then below that moist is clamps on the ocean floor. and that. brain has a twenty acre farm which produces fifty three thousand kilos of killed every year alone with two hundred thousand shellfish today i'm going to help check the lines. in the great work of james hill's going to come aboard and. learn how to do some help farming a high. school. all right if you tell her. there's the vegetable of the sea right there let's attack some muscle soft that you . and i call out of town.

unlike conventional aquaculture britain's ocean farming has no need for group chemicals in fact to be even seems to clean the water of pollution and it sequesters carbon thereby helping to tackle climate change. is there a reason why you you've chosen muscles so they're really lean proteins packed full of going to make it serious but also soak up nitrogen they filter and they use nitrogen to grow filter it out of the water column sandusky know this farm filters millions of gallons of water we can waste your filters up to fifty gallons a day we just want to easter you can if you were to take a number of these farms totaling five percent of u.s. waters you could remove the equivalent carbon output of over a million cars what the kelp does is it reduces the acidification rate it pulls so much carbon nitrogen out it changes the water called the so we've done studies

and it's called the halo effect of the kelp actually working together with the oyster companion companion species exactly exactly you know they're meant to be together but. not a little taller. couldn't so certainly intriguing but can the system really help coop did soon once those seeds. of the sea weed marine biotechnology love at the university of connecticut stem food study just this christy. this is proper science what's going on in here so we have a lot of the caliph might not be any really right here to. go to simona it's leading research in some call still estuaries like long island sound we have a lot of nutrient runoff so from fertilizer or from wastewater treatment

plants a lot of those nutrients get concentrated into the water and then they can cause problems like harmful algal blooms or you know hypoxic conditions and so by growing seaweed us in addition to shellfish we can take some of those nutrients and clean up the waters and the hypoxic that's like. right yes exactly which is not good for or for exactly. simone is going to show me how they use killed to both monitor and clean the waters in the sand so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take some of those harvested cows that we pulled off the long lines they were going to grind it up in the in this little machine. once cobra is simona can calculate that little nitrogen in the kilt which in turn helps it learn how much needs to be grown to clean the waters of pollutants. based on that then we can say you know based on that percentage if we grow this much seaweed

on this long of a line then we're taking up that much nitrogen from the water. information like this is vital for brenda who uses it to determine how much cope you have to cultivate in order to improve the water in his patch of the sun. three d. farming proposes a close collaboration between fishermen and scientists but that's not all yet another important partnership is happening on dry land toby fisher is a farmer who recently started working with brant used to use conventional fertilizer until six months ago when he switched to kill. the. fertilizer has a nice a nice smell to it very real and that's all you know it's the good stuff so it was actually going on here they quite a why would you not just put it straight on the fields the nutrients from the kelp

. will transfer over to the water and you see the kelp just turns into. like. you know and so all the nutrients leeches out into the liquid and then we can have a way to fertilize not going to get like some crab. you never know. tobie's farm grows over twenty five different kinds of fruit and vege supplying the local community and it's this organic plant based fertilizer that you know uses on all these crops. this is calculated to say look we're going to ruin kale through your never to scale attacks are going to. do you feel a kind of connection to the sea because of this operation most land based farmers don't think about their actions and how they affect the sea the nature of runoff from the land they got into the ocean the kalpa uses it to grow and then it comes

back here to really close a sea seed away and loop. closing this land to see loop is a huge part of three d. farming's appeal but in the center of new haven there's another collaboration which is putting sustainability on the menu. i'm off to meet the shapiro head chef at royal to find out more. brand came to me with the help and it's like here it is you that once you started telling me the story once we started dialogue benefit more than anything sustainability perspective i started playing around i started using a number idea of different ways that i can feel like man is has like and so i just go ahead and yeah go ahead and and as you would regular pasta he smells fantastic right you go. there's very good we're going to actually see this kind of ocean farming have

a significant impact on ocean cleanup on climate change you need we need our we need to eat most of the stuff we need to get you know what i mean you've got to sometimes a customer if i suppose a customer or way that people start asking for it then let brand figure out. how to mask. those are props from my department my goal and if they like it. i've done my bit. but changes of food here in new haven and three d. farming is a hard. i mean we've got to tell a story and i'm hopeful story about the future right you know it's all bad news about climate change and food sick and security stuff like that but i think out here we can say arrow things are a blank slate in this search chance to really build something new and build some from the bottom up that is sustainable restorative and doesn't make all the mistakes of industrial agriculture and thus industrial agriculture.

it's estimated that each week we lose an area the size of manhattan as a result of intensive over farming. nearly one third of the planet's land is severely degraded and agriculture is largely to blame. if we don't act fast the un projects the world has only sixty years of harvest. but there are glimmers of hope. seemingly barren landscapes can hide an underground forest of living tree stumps roots and seeds in africa a technique called farmer managed natural regeneration is nurturing this hidden vegetation to bring fertility back to damaged land developed an asiatic and is now used by farmers across the continent it uses restore it of methods such as selective pruning and thinning of shrubs to stimulate rapid growth leading to taller and stronger trees and healthier soils. over farms lands

once prone to soil erosion deserts vacation and drought a coming back to life. so far around seventy million hectares of land have been revived improving the food security and livelihoods of communities across africa. the african union has to play to the to further one hundred million hectares of degraded land must be restored by twenty thirty. a seminar is one of the techniques being used to achieve this. over the past century meat consumption has risen dramatically a growing and more affluent population wants more and more of it and industrialized farming has made it a staple. by twenty fifty global appetites are set to more than double which is environmentally unsustainable the finances have come up with a breakthrough solution to the problem which means in the future the meat we see

here won't come from the farm but from a laboratory. and. its place is hopping through really busy in there and it's not even new people are serious about their me. and i ask you where you're trying to find out if you fell for this thing my husband friday that this trade actually party going to. every friday was friday a rifle shot carrying the whole five m. to the. how much street would you say you guys go through in a week or. so let's take. you back. a little bit. like a whole noah's ark ten years serving up everywhere. on average britons get through eighty four kilos a week per person per year and it isn't just an eat at home treat at corrigan's in

mayfair they cater to a mainly meat eating clientele. how important would you say meat is to the menu. it's a matter of a much the friends keep changing there's always going to be something that. something that you could you imagine ever heard a day where you're facing in me that was grown in a laboratory on that master barbecue. i find it hard to believe our unique selling point will be gone on their feet like this getting it from the farm here to the park is what we're all about. for me what is appealing about the lab grown option is that no animals are killed and it takes up less environmental space and there's less of an impact on the waterways of the land and i feel like that could cut his navy off for sort of an alternative to this demand that isn't diminishing what do you think about that like you eat it and try and. are trying to sell it to

consumer i think here it is it's really hard to. i can understand even skepticism but lab grown meat is already a reality and it's only a matter of time different reaches the public in two thousand and thirteen dr mark pasta and his team at the university of maastricht in holland made headline news when they proved it was possible to meet with a single cow muscle sample. if you like conventional amber and now the race is on with scientists competing to be the first to create a lab grown burger to market to the masses. i've come to the university of plastic in holland where dr pasta has agreed to talk me through how they make cultured meat . morning hillary i remark who reads here mark in his colleagues are one of a number of teams around the world who are searching for a way to scale up production of lab grown meat if they succeed the environmental

impact could be enormous cause the ruminants they have to use for the multi. things where they are basically big here in their stomach from it and in that from intuition process methane gets released that's affecting global warming and climate methane is actually very powerful the house to see it's twenty times more powerful than c o two. so yeah and livestock is accountable for forty percent of wall methane emissions. the impact of farming cattle on climate change is so significant that some experts believe giving up beef reduces our carbon footprint more than giving up cars. but how do you get a hamburger from a test. so this is a small. piece of muscle taken from with a biopsy with

a needle biopsy this is taken. half an hour ago from what's the next step then once you do the exception that the stem cells in a muscle are just sitting there waiting to repair the tissue when it's injury to the muscle fibers or. then celsus themselves come in then they start to pull it through forming new muscle tissue that's what they do in the body so what we're doing right now is. every single muscle fiber so that the stem cells kind of think well there's an injury here we need to start coming out and start to pull that helps a multiplier so that even into thinking they need to repair a part of the body right so out of the small extraction that we've taken how many paddies do we think grow. eighty thousand eighty thousand burger patties just from this bit of liquid right that's unbelievable the tissue is then placed into

a blender before an enzyme is added to break it down even further into individual muscle fibers so by maximizing how much you break down the tissue and encourage the cells to multiply your getting more product out of that bit of liquid. once broken down further and fed a special culturing solution the cells are placed in an incubator so the conditions in here replicating the conditions inside the cow right exact temperature temperature. everything. in the warmth they will begin to multiply and once there are enough cells they're taken out and grouped together where they automatically contract to form tissue. in the moment i've been waiting for actually seeing a tangible. a tiny one and tiny said yes. so this is this is the end result where you have the individual fibers so this is about four

hundred of those fibers entire hamburgers about ten thousand i mean that wherever statements made that's absolutely man and grown purely in a lab this is rome. and this is purely though mark and his colleagues have proved that the science works the challenge for his team and others all around the world is producing cultured meat in a cost effective way. i'm hoping peter straight marks business partner can offer some thoughts on who. i'd be the first to get this product to supermarket shelves. by an american girl or a welcome piece if you know me thanks for the initial breakthrough has really happened in the lab here but the idea is really taken off in the us and silicon valley where all the tech startups are and there seems to be a space race to get this product on the shelves what's going on over there and how does that compete with what's happening here well to be honest we don't exactly

know what's going on there we know that a lot of money invested money is going to wear into several companies and they all sort of have the same tentative timing with respect to them going to the market as we have being that in a couple of years the first initial small introduction in the market over a product will have. it was going to be the first we want to see. there's no question the future of meat will be different for all of us but if i'm honest i'm not sure what i think about eating meat grown in a lab and i suspect that i'm not alone. but i am very pleased to meet their work of course van men's forte announced a dam based artist is determined to get us to confront our discomfort starting with the future forward cookbook. not every fish and yet is a must yet its forty five recipes you cannot get so all these dishes they are specifically made to start a conversation i hope it will familiarize more people with this new technology so

that it's less scary and it will facilitate a conversation around it so that we can make better choices on which what we actually want when i see a classic evolve in there as an iranian the quantum. needs. in vitro kabob it has its own bio incubator so basically this will be growing infinitely it's interesting when i when i think of the barber and my culture i mean the slaughter of the animal and the preparation of the for the whole ritual is such a big part of different cultures that i think it might be really hard to sort of separate that spirit absolutely yes and we can only do it if we place it with new kinds of rituals or behavior such as have new meaning as well course expects that within the next ten years we will all be confronted by lab grown meat on our plates

in readiness of that he's taking reservations at an unusual restaurant. is this an actual restaurant that you go there or is it an online waterhead how does it work it's called in vitro. right now it's only an online restaurant and we serve food for thought because. if you want to take reservations from two thousand and twenty eight what you do is pick a star for main course and dessert this one is for more korean people. because in korea is headed for eating life octopus and this is something similar but other than completely synthetic and did. what it does doesn't have a celebrity justice and you just want to pay their bills not who you are no note from april yet we have room it will two thousand and twenty nine we'll got something for my birthday. ok i think your book is you need to know who doesn't

really know. across the world's large scale food production increases demands on natural resources and leads to habitat loss but there are ways to reduce these effects. in costa rica tree planting to create living fences reversing the deforestation once caused by cattle ranching absorbing c o two and fixing the soil around the ranch. was to cut out the mixing of a naturally occurring fungus with the local soil has enabled plants to absorb water more efficiently reducing the pressure on staff water supply. and in cameroon instead of large monoculture cocoa plantations the planting i mixed your fruit trees leaving natural forests untapped increasing diversity and providing regular

income. changes like these however low tech a vital if we are to feed our growing population in ways that also safeguards the planet's. whether it's cute and culturally in australia wild and ferocious in bangladesh. earthrise we dress is the balance between endangered wildlife and then noisy neighbors. that. more is right there and there's nothing between the cow you have and that i'm a human habitat to live together. how many people here have seen a tiger but they can go really business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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