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    View Article  "Free range" aquaculture. Free the fish!

    http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/12/11332/9852#8

    Fine idea Canis
    "...get cultivated carnivorous/omnivorous fish to switch from eating other fish to eating a diet based on common, easily controlled and rapidly reproducing invertebrates, e.g. insects and worms."

    I think it has great potential.  For feeding chickens too.  Earthworms are an excellent choice for this food chain.  

    A wacky idea I have had on aquaculture is kind of a free range fish farm.  Floating ocean platforms that house wind and wave and underwater ocean current generators could serve to culture oysters with the dock mounted system they use now.

    They could also be designed to shelter fish and put extra air into the ocean with the wave machine output water.  A structure like this designed to increase food supply, just like natural structures, like corral does (where waves break on corral extra air is mixed with water), would incease food chain growth and GHG absorption all the way up through the local food chain around the platform.  From micro-organisms to large fish.

    These could be designed to serve as corral seed beds too.  By planting corral on the underwater structure, than periodically replanting it in suitable locations on the seabed.

    In over fertilized polluted areas like the Gulf coast/Mississippi delta, the wave machines could filter extra algae and weeds from the water and biodigest it, producing organic fertilizer and cleaning polluted water.  Biogas for clean kwh would alsio be produced.

    Lakes and rivers over run by overgrowth due to fertilizer and manure run off could benefit from smaller models of these floating systems.  There are even micro-organisms that have a special ability to trap and concentrate heavy metals and radioactive contaminants for removal from the watery ecosystem.

    View Article  "Our Daily Bread" on Sundance, CAFO hell is for humans too.

    http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/7/11350/87265#92

    Growth
    Growth can be powered by efficiency and productivity due to innovation.  It doesn't have to involve more people using more resources.

    Capitalism can be regulated to serve humankind.  Instead of serving up humanity as a commodity to feed the corporate bottomline.  Cheap labor, consumers, and cannon fodder, is that all humans are good for?  Like animals trapped in CAFO (confined animal feeding operation) hell.

    There is a really great industrial food expose' film from Germany on Sundance lately.  "Our Daily Bread".  Check it out.

    http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500198049

      Almost no dialogue, just animals, pigs, chickens, cows, and the humans that are cogs in the CAFO machinery.

    Also some footage on greenhouse/chem/veggie production.  The humans become indistinguishable from the animals, except that the animals are set for slaughter.  But really, doesn't the industrial society farm humans as well?

    We are all chattle on the all hat, no cattle duuhbyaist ranch.  Think of Orwell's "Animal Farm", which candidate will be a better farmer in chief?

    Can Barack set the animals, including US human animals, free?  I think we all ought to heed the warnings of anti-cruelty activists and boycott industrial farming as a model for our culture.

    How we treat the most helpless of organisms reflects our whole point of view.  Free the soil bacteria!  Stop chemical ag torture and murder of the soil ecosystem!  It's in that vein, bacterial rights, animal rights, all the way up the spectrum to human rights.  Free the chickens!!

    It's shocking to see baby chicks shuttled through a conveyor system like parts on a mass production line.  Cheeping all the way.  Check out the movie.