The West is missing the seaweed revolution

A couple of months ago I reviewed the book The Seaweed Revolution, which describes the mighty potential of ocean farming – something I’ve been talking about for several years now. One of the things the book points out is that seaweed farming is well established in certain countries, and almost completely unheard of in many others.

China, Indonesia, South Korea and other parts of Asia farm seaweed, in some cases with mechanised processes. In the whole of the West it is harvested wild. Outside...