Dan Barber is the co-owner and executive chef of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns. He is a supporter of sustainable agriculture and speaks out against agribusiness. In his Tedtalk, “How I Fell In Love With A Fish,” Barber informs us that 90% of the fish we eat have been swept away from the oceans. It also explains how farms that claim to be sustainable may actually be contributing to the ongoing environmental crisis. “For the last 50 years agribusiness has been adamant about feeding more people at lower costs” (Barber), but their methods are not sustainable. In reality, this pattern is actually very destructive. Monsanto, the leading agricultural company in America, claims to be “a sustainable agricultural company providing agricultural products that support farmers around the world” (Monsanto). In reality, Monsanto is releasing enormous amounts of pollution into rivers, reservoirs and the atmosphere. In addition to polluting the air and water, they are responsible for the failure of family farms, the cruel treatment of animals, the poisoning of the third world, and the refusal to label their products as GMO. In fact, over the past decade Monsanto has polluted freshwater sources around the world with dangerous chemicals. Now, after seeing an opportunity, the company is claiming rights to these water sources, filtering the water and selling it to the public. Additionally, some family farms are contaminated with pollen from Monsanto-controlled farms, which commonly use chemicals such as roundup. These family farms can then be sued for using chemicals without permission. Many farms have failed this way. These examples clearly highlight how agribusiness is primarily interested in making profits and not in… middle of paper… this relationship. Explain that flamingos enrich the environment and that the trade-offs far outweigh the negatives. Viva La Palma is a complete and closed circuit which makes it “self-renewable”. This is the agricultural model we should aspire to not only in the future, but what we should try to achieve now. We should not focus on net profits or quantity of production, but rather on the quality of what we produce and how it is produced. While I continue to believe that it will take years and perhaps decades for large farms to finally disappear, I am confident that the next few generations will be responsible for a new wave of thinking about how we farm. Over the next few generations, more Americans will take steps to become self-sufficient as the devastation imposed by corporations is shed light on..