Human invention never ceases to amaze.
Somebody has figured out how to grow fish like corn and wheat. It’s fish farming on dry land.
You can take fish cells from a fish, then cultivate more cells from it, and get fish fillets that didn’t come from live fish.
It looks and tastes like fish, because it is fish, but unlike wild-caught or farmed fish, it’s free of mercury and microplastics. It also eliminates the cruelty of killing living creatures.
The method has skeptics, though, who don’t believe it’ll catch on widely, or be cheap enough to compete with commercially-caught fish. At best, they think, it could add to a food supply whose natural sources can’t keep up with human population growth, which is outstripping the oceans’ ability to feed humanity. Read story here.
Photo: What “fishless fish” looks like on a sushi platter