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The planet will be home to more than billion people by and were already seeing critical levels of famine around the world mirrored by growing obesity in developed nations In The Perfect Protein Andy Sharpless maintains that protecting wild seafood can help combat both issues because seafood is the healthiest cheapest most environmentally friendly source of protein on earth While the conservation community has taken a simplistic save-the-whales approach when it comes to oceans Sharpless contends that we must save the worlds seafood not just to protect marine life and biodiversity but to stave off the coming humanitarian crisis With high demand for predator species like tuna and salmon wealthy nations like the US convert reduction species such as anchovies mackerel and sardines into feed for salmon and other farmed animalseven though these overlooked fish are packed with health-boostingOmega- fatty acids and could feed millionsBy establishing science-based quotas protecting wild habitats and reducing bycatch and treating anchovies and their like as food not feed Sharpless believes that effective ocean stewardship can put healthy sustainable seafood on the table forever To that end Oceana has tapped -plus chefsincluding Mario Batali Eric Ripert and Jose Andres forrecipes that give us all a role to play in this revolutionary mission to save the fish so that we can eat more fish.



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Andy Sharpless

Andrew Sharpless has led Oceana since 2003 as its Chief Executive Officer. Oceana, founded in late 2001, has grown in that time to be the largest international conservation organization fully dedicated to protecting the oceans.He holds degrees from Harvard Law School, the London School of Economics, and Harvard College and is an advocate and a manager with wide leadership experience in business and NGO start-ups. He served as Executive Vice President of Discovery.com, the online division of Discovery Communications, the cable television programmer behind The Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Health and The Travel Channel.Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of the initial management team which launched RealNetworks, the company which pioneered online streaming media. As VP at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York City, he helped manage its move to a new and expanded Philip Johnson-designed building in midtown Manhattan.Sharpless was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., working for a variety of corporate, non-profit, and governmental clients. As an advocate, Sharpless joined People for the American Way shortly after its founding, serving as deputy director of development. He was a grassroots organizer for the Center for Study of Responsive Law, and the leader of the launch of the Wisconsin Citizens Utility Board. His volunteer work includes serving as trustee and treasurer of Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.



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