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Ocean Food Systems, Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Ocean Food Systems, Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Marine Sciences Faculty Presentations
Presentation given during session on Food Justice, where Barton Seaver, Director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program in the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, described a great nutrition and health crisis in America perpetuated by groups demarketing seafood and promoting meat in the American diet. Seaver noted that Americans consume about 167 lbs. of meat a year and only 14 lbs. of seafood, leading to connected public health and environmental crises, heart disease, and obesity.
According to presenter Barry Costa-Pierce:
Seafood systems in the USA are our most insane foods; America imports nearly every seafood we …