We need your help, and the planet needs your help. By 2050, human demand for food is expected to increase by a whopping 70 percent, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, with demand for protein rising at an even greater percentage because the burgeoning middle class in Asia is upgrading its diet and eating more protein.
The world's resources are finite, so the need to produce food more efficiently and sustainably is critical to the 9.7 billion people who are projected to inhabit Earth by 2050. When comparing an animal's ability to retain protein and energy and to convert food to flesh, fish is far and away the winner. A fish fed 100 kilograms of feed produces 61 kilograms of edible meat. Conversely, a chicken fed 100 kilograms of feed produces 21 kilograms of edible meat. For pigs and cows, that number is even lower — only 17 kilograms and 4 to 10 kilograms, respectively.
At the Global Aquaculture Alliance, our mission is to promote responsible aquaculture practices through education, advocacy and demonstration, and we recognize the reality that aquaculture production is only growing. Aquaculture, executed poorly, can negatively affect the environment, human health and business. Done responsibly, aquaculture is the most efficient and sustainable means of meeting the world's insatiable appetite for healthy, lean protein.
You can support the Global Aquaculture Alliance's mission of feeding the world through responsible aquaculture by pledging to eat more responsibly farmed seafood.
Please join us in safeguarding the global seafood supply and protecting the oceans by pledging to eat more responsibly farmed seafood.
