Dan Barber is co-owner and executive chef of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns. He is an advocate 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 disappeared from the oceans. He also explains how farms that claim to be sustainable may actually be contributing to the current environmental crisis. “For the past 50 years, agribusiness has strived to feed more people at less cost” (Barber), but their methods are unsustainable. In fact, this model is very destructive. Monsanto, America's leading agricultural company, claims to be "a sustainable agricultural company that provides agricultural products that support farmers around the world" (Monsanto). In reality, Monsanto releases enormous amounts of pollution into rivers, watersheds and the atmosphere. In addition to polluting the air and water, they are responsible for bankrupting family farms, cruel treatment of animals, poisoning the third world, and refusing to label their products as containing GMOs. In fact, over the past decade, Monsanto has polluted fresh water sources around the world with dangerous chemicals. Now, after seeing an opportunity, the company claims its rights to these water sources, filters the water and sells 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 these chemicals without authorization. Many farms went bankrupt as a result. These examples clearly show how agribusiness is primarily interested in making profits, and not in this relationship. He explains that flamingos enrich the environment and that the downside far outweighs the downside. La Viva La Palma is a complete, closed loop, making it “self-renewing”. This is the agricultural model that we should not only aspire to in the future, but that we should strive to achieve now. We should not focus on net gains, nor on the quantity of production, but rather on the quality of what we produce and how it is produced. Although I still believe that it will be years, if not decades, before large agricultural companies disappear for good. , I am convinced that the next generations will be responsible for a new wave of thinking regarding the way we farm. Over the next generations, more Americans will take steps to become self-sufficient as light is shed on the devastation imposed by big business..