“Those who nod sagely and quote the tragedy of the commons in relation to environmental problems from pollution of the atmosphere to poaching of national parks tend to forget that Garrett Hardin revised his conclusions many times over thirty years.… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“I believe citizens are beginning to realize that their birthright, a healthy ecosystem, has been stolen, and they want it back.” — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“By 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fish farming will dominate fish supplies. Given how wrong the FAO has been in the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“I have never seen a food writer mention this, but all shrimp imported into the United States must first be washed in chlorine bleach… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“Bycatch and discards are a fact of life to a fisherman. There is no fishing method that catches only the quarry. ...The UN Food… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
You can cruise the world's millions of omega-3 Web sites without encountering any reflections about where these prized fatty acids are coming from and… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
The availability of fish is a food security issue. We need to stop our first world fleets taking fish from the mouths of the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
Fish farming, even with conventional techniques, changes fish within a few generations from an animal like a wild buffalo or a wildebeest to the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
“The scariest thing is that nobody seems to be considering the impact on those wild fish of fish farming on the scale that is… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
