+Ionlymadethistoleavecoments LOL, the only thing better than TED talks is the awesome, intelligent community that comments on the videos :D

+highspacefox sorry to disappoint lol

instaBlaster.

+Marek Kacprzak But God says shellfish are an abomination, you godless heathen. Actually, I'm a Pastafarian and I don't want any seafood on my spaghetti.

+Marek Kacprzak Exactly. Save the shellfish, go vegan.

Maxander2001 You have got to be kidding me. Shellfish don't have any more brains than a flippen plant anyway. Save the carrots, eat a vegan. :-P

Primalxbeast I have too much university education to be quite that thick.

Maxander2001 Really, most of the college level biology classes I've taken seemed to involve lots of cutting up dead critters, so I'm doubting you've had as much biology instruction as me if you want to complain about someone eating something as primitive as a clam, I doubt you would have dealt well with things like dissecting cats and fetal pigs. You don't even want to know the sort of experiments that were covered in my neurobiology text.

The real issue is society as a whole, individualism self greed, and overpopulation. Almost all of these problems "Ted" talks about would be fixed by regulating fertility rates, or lowering overall population. There will always be the rich and the poor regardless of how many people exist, it's hoe society works. The problem is that with more people the more harm comes to the earth. But hey, guess we can't be too judge mental about it. Cuz in the end if I was born into the top 1% (like most of the 1% are), I'd gladly spend my unearned money as satisfyingly as I pleased

+TheFlowMind Tragedy of the commons, google it. Lack of private ownership creates waste and depletion. Communism is the problem, not the solution (as the past has amply shown).

+NietzscheanMan did you mean capitalism is the problem? Because capitalism encourages private ownership, communism doesn't.

+TheFlowMind no authoritarian and heavy handed strategy can realistically be called a solution. the way to solve the problem is to create solutions that make economic sense. that is why he talked about doubling the wages of fisherman. If you can create a product that creates higher profit, better product, and less destruction, then you could nudge the the world into line.

+thewanderandhiscomp Private ownership of banks... with a mandate from government that they control the money supply. Banks hugely finance government election campaigns. If you think the current banking system is a product of capitalism, you are a fucking moron.

+crawfzilla I was going to the fish market later today to buy some tuna to make tuna sandwiches xD

+Bruno Cesar VS these Ted talks ruining all our daily efforts. catfish isn't that bad for a bottom feeder and it's cheap. I wonder if octopus and squid are beneficial for the environment.

I'll try to buy more local river fish now, I think it's better and cheaper, well at least I'll try xD

+crawfzilla Mussels in a sauce with white wine, butter and cream with some fresh herbs and peppers - delicious! You can serve it with pasta even :)

+crawfzilla Try a vegan option and save the environment, your health and the life of an animal.

We need less greed and more weed. Seaweed that is, but the other one is also nice ;)

*mussel

+Drama_Llama_5000 So... we need to lift to get our proteins and omega 3s now ?

+Drama_Llama_5000 Does mussel seaweed soup interests you? Because it is a thing and it tastes great

+bmin that sounds really good

+Drama_Llama_5000 mussel***

YES! I've been eating vegans for years now and I feel terrific, and it improves the environment!

You've been eating vegans? yikes! :/ It's probably best to stick to plants

+Chlorophyll Chris The best diet for the environment is to start this whole water filtration thing the seaweeds and mussels have going. There is always a possibility to reduce your dietary table.

+Chlorophyll Chris Yes! basted in goose fat. Bones for stock. There's no waste! Everybody wins!

+Dynosaur Rokks Maybe use your bones for stock.

but to do that we would need to not have brains :(

+The Blue Farmer That is not the point, the point is to kill the right fish at the right time in the right way.

Arthur Dent Even if that's done you are still left with a highly polluted product.

+The Blue Farmer the "right fish at the right time in the right way" includes a product that isn't polluted.

just4fun620 good luck. Even if you grow your own fish the fish food is polluted because the fish food comes from bycatch and byproducts.

there is no future mate : )

+Sergio Denis The future is vegan, if it includes human civilization, it seems.

Stoned Cosmonaut 14 billion people can easily be fed, if energy stops being wasted fed to animals turning 80% of it into heat energy through metabolism, and losing the rest to micro organisms inside the GI tract, not perfect absorption of feed energy, etc, etc. So much ignorance, obvious lack of relevant higher level education... Bos taurus is NOT a good organism to put feed into, which humans can convert to a lot more energy if eaten directly. 80% of the worlds grown soy is fed to animals, because it is high grade protein and leads to increased meat, milk and egg yield.

+Anston [Music] fish ladders work, to remove barriers from the most important rivers. But the free market will never create one, the owner of the powerstation gains no benefit.

Exactly. The guy giving the speech doesn't seem to realize the bigger picture at all. And I mean at all! He has little ideas that sound great in context, but would never work or cause other even worse issues in reality.

kurtilein3 Oh right I had nearly forgot about those! They aren't implemented at all the dam important to these fish? Is there a fund to make them a reality? Yeah, the best thing would be to just make them mandatory from the get-go, but let's just do what we can for now.

Carson Hunt How so? How is eating less shrimp a bad idea, in what context?

kurtilein3 Apparently I still have a bunch to learn about USA as a Finnish guy.

Blrss and protect vegans who don't eat fish at all.

+Jojo L You are sick.

Not Even Vegan I just had my physical checked, I'm perfectly healthy:)

Jojo L Your attitude and contribution to the deliberate carnage is sick.

+Arvin Wiyono trust me, you can grill anything

+Arvin Wiyono Sure, I did some grilled Oysters, you just need a smaller gap grill, or a closed grill(I don't know the speciific names in english), you can even roast em.

Sheila Wood I agree and it's not like the human race is going to die off if we stop eating fish.

+NuzV Nah.

+NuzV but then we wouldnt get the satisfaction of killing animals and then why would we even want to live anymore?

+Divad Mlap I would love an actual response as to why we shouldn't just stop eating all animals, but I know that won't happen. And there isn't a good response regardless. Go vegan.

+NuzV okay. Let's have some countdown. There're about 25 thousands metric tons of oatmeal produced last year. It's one of main component of the vegan diet(and basically every healthy diet). 300 gramms of oatmeal per day for every man on a planet equals almost 9 hundred thousands metric tons of oatmeal. It's almost 4 times more than it's produced now. This amount of increase of framing industry could be amazingly terrible. With the technology we have today there's no freaking way to pull this "vegan" trick at all. And this is only oatmeal. What's about soy and other stuff? Earth is overpopulated, the only way to deal with the problems people have now is to reduce our population.

Stoned Cosmonaut While I agree that the earth is a bit overpopulated for long-term sustainability, I disagree with your depiction of the whole oatmeal stuff. Not everyone on the planet needs to eat oatmeal. Oatmeal seems to me like a pretty western thing, through Asia and India they have rice as basis of their diet. And as I mentioned elsewhere in the comments, you lose about 4/5 of the nutritional value on the way when producing meat and dairy products. At least on the spreadsheets we should have more than enough production to "feed the world", but local production is the way to go in reality. The problem is not to eat enough protein, vegetables contain more than enough protein if you don't insist on bodybuilding. The problems are specific vitamins like beta-carotenes (in less developed countries) and B12 as a product that's present only in small amounts on vegetables but get's enriched in meat. After all, meat is pretty decent in nutrition, it contains most of the stuff you need. Organisms tend to extract the stuff they need from their food and concentrate it in their body. But over the long term, you don't need very much of it in your diet, people eat too much meat, with a good selection of vegetables, fruits and all that stuff you can substitute the nutritional value of meat. But I guess this diversity in vegetables isn't apparend in the poorest places of the planet, else we wouldn't come across the (under normal conditions silly) idea of modifying rice to contain more beta-carotene.

I find tuna very dry.

Mercury poisoning

Yes!

+utube101x Those biotechnology-haters. It's like clouless me bitching about car manufacturers that they have the secret agenda to kill every car driver.

true that ... vegan Is the way :D

+03Inolvidable Actually crop farming causes lots of impact too, destroying wild scapes to make a large crop field, the thing is to find a way not to live separately from nature, but integrated with it, like biodegradable trash, environment friendly farming( there's some experimental agricultural forests around the world who are actually doing fine, and now they are trying to scale it up), but right now the biggest treats are indeed the Bovine herding, Soy and Corn farming and the Fishing, as they take a very large space, lots of fresh water and are high in demand, and the research for sollutions to reduce the impact are still very "immature" as they don't get much incentive from governments and companies, just some timid donations.

I agree! And I don't know if I got you wrong but vegan food does not mean to live separate from nature. Most of the soy and corn we produce is fed to animals that we then consume, most of the water, too. Animal products are the worst for the environment, not to mention ethical and health related reasons. If everybody was aware of that fact and would consume more consciously or even stop consuming certain products, big improvements would happen

+Bruno Cesar VS So many of them crops are being used to feed the animals people eat. Being vegan is the only way that we can make a difference.

+Bruno atleast you have a brain. To op, nature needs us as a predator to sustain balance. Mainly due to our past. To just stop all animal eating would hugely upset that balance. Leading to animals overbreeding and causing their own extinction and dead zones. What really needs to be done is stiffer regulations and control implemented for the hunting and farming of animals

+Divad Mlap maybe because of the amino acids that oil contains?

+Stoned Cosmonaut or we could just eat flax/chia/hemp seeds instead which have a much more balanced omega 3:6 ratio and wont contribute to our leading health problems because of all the saturated fat and cholesterol ????

+Divad Mlap We don't need to eat fish.

+Stoned Cosmonaut amino acids are the building blocks of protein. Oil is made of fatty acids. You are a moron.

+Chlorophyll Chris fucking idiot have you seen question mark in the comment i've left?

+Munqq the anchor Me too, that's why I don't eat them. Eat a plant-based diet. Better for the environment, your health and obviously the animals that we both love ;)

+Daedhart Insects are disgusting, though...

+TheAnnoyingGunner Ground up everything is the same. Fast food, pre-packaged hot dogs, and deli meats all know this and feed us whatever they can get their hands on.

+Daedhart What you're trying to say is that YOU don't want to change.

Eli Oskar Even ground up there are small but sometimes powerful differences, if there are different ingredients. But the texture of your food matters in a significant way. It is the difference between joy and the urge to gag. Psychological factors play a role too (as well as you eat with your eye), things that are subject to change but change pretty slowly.

+TheAnnoyingGunner In some places in South America, people eat bugs commonly and certain tarantula's are a delicacy.

+Tiger Woods Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!?

+MrDivinity22 Plants are too.

+lovingboarding That is the question!

+lovingboarding not to kill them. Try not to be a moron.

+Crystal Honey That's 90% of the comment section right now... =(

+Crystal Honey It's like playing Clouedo with the butler proudly yelling at you "I did it!"

+Evange well it's kinda future, but waaaay far away from what we have now. Today it's very expensive to do that.

John R because we cant start offing people ...

Yes, P J, seems many people think they're being overtly clever by bringing up over population. Still, it is the habits of this over population that do the true damage

People also eat too much.