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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

While the North American seaweed industry remains tiny by global standards — 95 percent of farmed seaweed comes from Asia — it is the fastest-growing type of aquaculture in the United States. In the 1970s, entrepreneurs introduced a species of seaweed off Hawaii, intending to manufacture a food thickener. And there have been disasters.

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