Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish

www.ted.com Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain.
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[@SpiritOfTheWest49]

One of my favourite TED talks ever. He hit the nail right on the head, and this is an issue of such deep importance to everyday life and our impacts on the world.

[@chloef5115]

SpiritOfTheWest49 I love doing a skool project where I have to rewatch this millions pf times to answer all the questions

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[@peterlandyn6821]

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[@killianbowen2004]

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[@davidjd123]

its crazy how people think corn and wheat is more eco friendly when cows are far more efficient

[@yt_pablo_actual]

This is such a great TED talk, best assignment I've ever had

[@Marialla.]

"How can we create conditions that allow every community to feed itself?" I LOVE this question! This gets us thinking in the right direction. Spread out the dependence, don't centralize it. Encourage healthy food bioregions EVERYWHERE!

[@vipersuphere]

the sentence should end itself “substantially” you want to thrive, not to wade**

[@Fisholover]

7 years later, I still watch this.

[@AmandaBunnyification]

Never tire of it :)

[@petristorres8647]

Me too and I am getting other people to think like this. Fisheries and government now interested in talking with our group.

[@zhangatan]

Me too

[@wholesome_orange1553]

same

[@kimtrotta8939]

I’ve listened to this talk 5 times over the past few years and it always amazes me!!! Spectacular!!!

[@patriciakimball8150]

Ok, 4 times for me.

[@jnac8857]

I can go back to this talk again and again,its more relevant now, 12 years after!

[@chefjdog]

Read this guys book "The Third Plate". Best cookbook I have ever read with only one recipe. Leave Mother Nature alone, and she will thank you.

[@MissReinaRabbit]

This is by far my favourite Ted talk I’ve ever watched.

[@patriciakimball8150]

Dan barber’s talk about pate de foie gras is also great.

[@GardeningBaron]

He articulated everything so well, what an important message

[@turkboris]

Thank you Dan. I am a vegetarian (do not eat fishes) but I bow to you this time.

[@hamilton6142]

My AP Human Geo teacher assigned this video for homework, and I was so confused by the title. Now I get it. This video was amazing, and it really opened my eyes to the issue.

[@hadiaakka]

I’d like to say something here...  Can I add something to that?  Can I say something here?  I have a question about that.  I’d like to add my two cents  I’d like to comment on that can you do it this for me this is my homework

[@vivianeb90]

That fish farm made me teary. So happy that it exists. I hope that it's still a stable healthy system today.

[@Milupa5]

Still one of my most favourite TED talks...

[@fitfitwild443]

Three biggest challenges we (the world) have to overcome; end religious (all) wars, end world hunger, and save the Ocean. This gives us hope on restoring the Ocean. After watching Seaspiracy I stopped eating fish. Plant based whole foods is best for our health. Very inspiring presentation Dan. Thanks.

[@dsoul1305]

In my humble opinion, quite the contrary, because it doesn't further changes like this.

[@shankarnathbackup]

beautiful talk .. loved it. shows how much dan barber has prepared for this. and loved the standing ovation the audience gave him at the end.

[@nguyenminhuc734]

This is an awesome talk indeed you know.i love the humor of this guy and how informative he is. As soon as i listen to this talk , i immediately realized the best way to farm is extensively not intensively because it saves costs and effort, like his friend's farm, he feed effortlessly because there is a food chain here you know: fish eats eels and even microorganisms/ They are a real bird sanctuary here the birds fly over 150 miles to comto the city and it's weird because that's too far its not because they love their offspring but divine food. THey even lose 20 percent of fish for the flamingos.TO conclude, that is a great talk tks!

[@kent6693]

We need self-renewing farms and self-sustaining communities. Also, it is important that our farm focuses its expertise on ecological network, biotic community, and organic farming. Because a good food that is naturally produced is an indication that our ecosystems are thriving.

[@doloppost]

Great talk, inspiring, and well brought. I was actually eating fish while watching and now I wonder how much better it could taste in the future.

[@asgabeler]

Boy oh Boy, I loved hearing this Ted Talk the first time I heard it about a year ago, and Dan still sounds good with this much time away. I told almost everyone I know about this talk, (one of my favorites) and put it in a link list I send to new friends and acquaintances "about ideas worth sharing"... Thank you for posting this here on KZbin for me to come across while compiling a playlist about DanBarber of Blue Hills @ Stone Farms. He is such a great storyteller/speaker!

[@Turbine68]

I need to try this fish

[@armandoespinozaaa]

No es solo el punto de que comeremos más rico en el futuro, sino de nuestra supervivencia como raza humana!!! Magnífica charla!

[@KevinShockey]

A great example of how a great story, delivers a message more powerfully, than any other way.

[@zhangatan]

This deserves more views

[@austinmoore9940]

The laughter at 4:20

[@amatuerA11]

11 years later I still watch this

[@Alekosssvr]

Excellent! One of the best TED talks ever. There is ton of substance in this 20min talk. Entertaining too!

[@dersurhodes]

incredible. so well delivered and such an entertaining presentation. this is about solutions!

[@j.p.thearmoredchef]

One of my all time favorites

[@mcnowski]

Why are people so amazed that nature can take care of itself and revert to a healthier state over time when we stop fucking with it? Biology is intelligent.

[@jagadeshningappa8345]

Thank you Dan for a wonderful talk.

[@its559mes]

This is one of my favourite TEDTalks - such an important issue.

[@charbonou2]

Thank you. The farming method described *is* revolutionary, but it's also quite popular - just very unusual on a large scale. It's called Permaculture.

[@sheepwshotguns]

wow, this talk was a thousand times more interesting than i thought it would be.

[@Dr.BubblesIsInTheAir]

My teacher used this video to teach us about eco-systems and its an extremely good video

[@ElmaPollard]

wonderful talk gives me hope for the future of this planet

[@angieangel135]

Miguel is such a perfect example of what systems should strive for, but I think the biggest question is, how to accomplish this goal? What can we do to change our food system? Where should we start? How to be innovative and economically viable? Ted talks provokes so many questions...

[@swtantra]

Beautiful beautiful beautiful!!! Thanks Dan Barber for sharing this amazing talk!!!

[@BlowDevilUp]

YEAH! Best TED lecture in a long while!

[@gcbranco3220]

Can’t believe this video only has 3.1 thousand likes...

[@scott3462]

I have been watching this with ecology students for years. Miguel knows nothing of fish farming, but he is an expert in relationships!

[@Heartwood256]

I really enjoyed this talk. Much more then I thought I would, I was facinated through all 19 minutes. :) This should be the future IMO. It seems good for budget, good for the enviroment, and good eating. So why is it that we don't fish farm like this normally?

[@OpakeArawra2]

hey has a great speech on foie gras too. amazing speaker. brilliant ideas.

[@JamesTheTank]

I love this guys other TED video even more

[@monadbornslippy]

this has been one of my favorite ted presentations!

[@shadman1911]

A brilliant point made there...

[@Xelaju16]

what a great speaker! i click on the video by accident... i dont know anything about fish and got sucked in...and watch the whole video!

[@nf3922]

This is not some revolution in aquaculture, It's called a fishery, a private fishery.

[@crudhousefull]

Incredible speaker. Better the second time around. Also a cooker of flesh getting a standing ovation from TEDster veggies is no easy feat

[@NwZ2]

It depends on your sense of definition: consumption without destruction of the environment/resources is by definition not really a "consumption" if you define consumption as a destructive act in itself.

[@808peralta]

native Hawaiian fishponds for mullet work the same way too!

[@socratiz]

No doubt! Flawless, Funny, Inspirational, Enlightening, coherent and ....... I LOVE FISH!!!

[@thaiscare]

Someone was successful here! This speaker has made me think different about ecology and food something I've never considered very important IN THIS WAY...

[@MatthewGerrard]

seriously good videos. Every single one is brilliant :) good job.

[@GrimFantasma]

this is absolutely genius

[@TheVenetia13]

Excellent Dan. I loved this talk that you gave. Exciting, sad and hopeful all in one!

[@EmpiricalLogic]

This was most excellent.

[@veganath]

One Straw Revolution - great book

[@willsurely]

Thanks! ; )

[@davidbrand1668]

good to see sustainable farming. Too many environmental disasters from outdated practices. Very Good talk.

[@deseosuho]

The Time Magazine article says about 1,200 tons of fish annually on 3,200 hectares of marshland. As most of the new "extensive" ecological-community-dominated farms are equally devoted to promoting the model as they are to actual production, it's hard to say what max capacity would be from this method.

[@majinspy]

@dadattam I was thinking this. The argument of "dan" was that we have too many chicken and can "trade" them for fish. Well...we are better at growing them than fish, I'll take that trade.

[@Toreiishi]

Thank you so much!!

[@marcustraore545]

“The fish tasted like chicken “ lol.

[@trance183]

Beautiful presentation.

[@sloppycoder]

Always glad to see these ideas getting more exposure! Look up Bill Mollison / Permaculture.

[@alvaroandrespizzavarela878]

For a second I thought you meant Andrew Millison, but no, it's Bill Mollison, though Millison is awesome too.

[@SecretOrientalSauce]

"fish that taste like chicken", ha ha priceless! :P

[@Paulginz]

@veganath If the meaning of necessity is restricted to life-or-death situations, then it isn't necessary to avoid torture. There has to be a trade-off between quantity and quality of life somewhere. I should have used the word useless instead. Depending on the type of farming, the amount of suffering can be less than would be expected in the wild. Abattoirs are designed to reduce (as much as cheaply possible) fear and suffering (it toughens the meat apparently).

[@MylesThomp]

Brilliant talk.

[@jagadeshningappa8345]

I cant believe something like this of such scale exits. Worth for all agriculturalist to learn NEW definition of "sustainability" - high time we start doing our bit to protect our ecology.

[@pogdog1]

This is mad! large scale permaculture

[@IkaikaSpace]

Amazing presentation! Brilliant!

[@ArizonaBorn1358]

Totally awesome. I man after my own heart. I appreciate him exposing more of the truth behind the American fish farming. I don't eat them - if I can help it.

[@PapaJohnsonjr]

Came here thinking this was a video about a guy talking about a fish he loves. Love love. Boy was I disappointed.

[@stonewallbook]

This is great, and I agree with 99% of what he's saying. But here's the problem, government, at least here in the U.S., is working against this type of production. Having communities which can "feed themselves" means less dependency on centralized government. Govt. trends in the last 10-20 years have meant MORE dependency on centralized government. Ironically, I'd bet that many in this audience support centralized government.

[@Лада-к6б]

Hey from 2023!

[@TheChats02]

Thank you, Dan.

[@TheMontessoriando]

Dan Barber rocks!

[@Shadowstray]

Absolutely fascinating. I'm speechless.

[@00corin00]

This was great!!!

[@chvick]

The one type of harvest that supports the environment... very very impressive and admirable! Now go watch the movie "The Cove" to see an example of unfortunate and brutal alternatives to this type of farming! A heartache of a subject, but very important, also revealing that the health issues of eating larger fish such as tuna, dolphin, whale etc. is the amount of mercury in the fish. As human beings we love fish myself included and this type of farm seems like an excellent option :)

[@smcmillan88]

Best TED talk I've seen in a long time

[@devourerofbabies]

This should be required viewing.

[@Jayhawkblue]

"fish tasted like chicken" i loled

[@enoughmoney]

4:14 is that Dan Ariely in the audience?

[@GetMeThere1]

A great GREAT talk and story! More more more of this kind of good news!!!

[@boldkitten]

how do they gather the fish from the farm?

[@Paulginz]

@veganath From a statistical point of view, your quote only furthers my point: The experience of torturing animals is extremely common amongst kids. If you followed the lives of many children, you would probably find that most of those who torture animals DON'T become criminals.

[@veganath]

I'm ex-military, I joined because I wanted to protect what I loved, so yes there are somethings worth fighting for. When it comes to the issue of non-violence, we have a choice, if violence is needed for self preservation, ok, however, if no human initiated unnecessary violence as a choice, the world would be peaceful. Again, we have tried almost every avenue to create a peaceful world, economic, political, technological, etc, to no avail. Veganism looks to be untried, Einstein may be right!

[@newhorizons1970]

it just donned on me.. this fish.. i love it, where can i (m)eat this fish?

[@hadiaakka]

What information did you learn about the speaker and his background? What hook/grabber does the speaker use? What words or phrases in the video are new to you? Write three words/phrases and their definitions.?

[@thewinematcher]

AWESOME video

[@adj789]

very interesting I hope this can change things for the better

[@user-qb9wc6qw3f]

What's so amazing about this talk

[@ragnarocks0]

@TAHK15 I think private philanthropists and aid programs would and should implement this, because they would have the initial high cost and it would give the communities they are aiding a self sustaining fish farm

[@boorens18]

this could be a turning point in agriculture as we know it. Exciting

[@metaleggman18]

I kissed a fish and I liked iiiit~ lol

[@veganath]

There was a case in northern China, a consequence of the PRC's one child policy & a preference for male children. It was so important for couples to hv a male child, that middle men appeared who would promise, for a fee, to take the girl children of their hands & find another family for their child. Now where do you imagine this girls ended up. They were passed to farmers, and the girls were raised as we raise any other non-human animal, upon maturity, they were slaughtered for meat.

[@veganath]

@cchilder & planetdarwin, you advocate a move away from excessive consumption! I couldn't agree more.Our current mind set is of fear, coupled with an intense sense of isolation & loneliness, borne of seeking happiness in all the wrong places, the symptoms: indulgence in consumption to avert these feelings. My own experience has drawn me to reconnect with life, not through thought, but redirecting the focus of my attention to feeling life. Perhaps our greatest love affair is with the universe.

[@rahxephon52]

Well worth watching

[@majinspy]

@chalkies There are three kinds of TED videos. The "arty" ones, which are fun. The other two solve problems. Some are like this where an aging hippy says "zomg here's a completely pie in the sky expensive solution to our problems that only people like me can afford." Some actually have information, numbers, statistics, and detailed plans or outlines. This is one of the aging hippy ones. Let this tell a poor American he needs to buy 7$ a pound fish.