Joe Rogan: Why You Should Be Eating More Oysters

the oyster is a great thing to eat we should eat more oysters right she more clams Florida oddly is an amazing sustainable seafood scene you know just the work that they do with the the Florida stone crab right you know that every year they just harvest like the left arm and then they put the crab back and the next year it's the right arm and they put the crab back really that's a brilliant fishing industry yes don't kill the animal Vick or the flick claw grows back right and it's nicely in the plate side by side I don't like that you're telling me something good about Florida great shrimping scene a great you know they're they're actually leaders in sustainable seafood well the seafood and fishing is such a gigantic part of their economy it makes sense that they would do that that's a smart thing yeah the grouper fishing down there is a giant giant part of the earth there's a good book that was published a few years ago the big oyster I think Marco Lansky he wrote a book about history of the oyster yeah the New York and the history of the oyster and it incredible super interesting because his his thing was like you know we try to portray our history as like glorious and we herded Bisons before for protein and that's how he started I like modern farming but in fact we probably farmed oysters and snails and clams because they don't move and they're the most prolific and the most abundant source of protein Laskey in that book orlansky brings up a premise and i'm loosely interpreting it now because i read this book a few years ago but think of this for a second right the island of Manhattan is a perfect all the rivers around it all the water systems around it is actually one of the greater oyster situations on the Atlantic east coast right the reason that the population exploded in Manhattan at them in the early days was that any person could literally get off a boat walk on to the island of em of Manhattan homeless broke and sleep in an alley and walk down to the river and picked five oysters a small oyster is five grams of protein right a medium oysters got ten grams protein so a completely destitute person could just eat six oysters a day you know three oysters and live again another day to find a job so the population ultimately you know New York City and his population was based on this readily supply for this huge supply of oysters Wow yeah there's a free available source of protein that will make you live another 24 hours so if it takes you three days to find a job four days to find a job 20 days to find a job you're not gonna die because there's Auster's look at this and yet and they they found ways for him what is this Harlem River oh yeah there's an actual island that they thought we're like geological formation that are made of oyster shells this layers and layers of oyster shells the article that Jamie put up is from Thrillist is that what it's from pull up to the top so he told people the order of the neighborhood's why or sirs are ridiculously important to the history of New York City and it's just showing all these ancient photos of mounds of oyster shells there's an amazing program today you know some of the area's a there's a they take these giant cages one Easter if I'm correct one Easter filters four metric tons of water per day from what I understand I might be wrong with my math so take this for instance you know a cage a caged box of thousands of oysters there it is there's a single oyster can filter about 30 to 50 gallons of water loose bath New York's waterways are exactly clean as the folks behind the billion oyster project are trying to change that by recycling shells from the partnering restaurants and getting them back in the water to build austere reefs the goal is to add a billion moister to the water by 2035 so far they've restored 1.0 one acre 1.5 acres of reason what don't say 1.05 [ __ ] you got an acre oh that's you just add in those extra two numbers 1.05 acres of reefs and count 11.5 million newly grown oysters but the oyster will clarify the water it'll make murky River clear again Wow but in effect the taste of the oyster they don't eat those oysters I think those are pulled back into landfill after or mulched into Gardens or for the shells mm to be put for more reefs but the oyster is interesting it doesn't move right a noise it opens its shells to feed showing how they do it this is incredible and the oyster you know that the oyster has a it will change gender according to the density of the population so it'll go from male to female in order to balance the flocculation er that's incredible we're watching a video where the what is it the oyster recovery so it's a time-lapse but it said what does it say it was firmly sure filtration right but there was a watermark on the video there in the corner it was showing the recovery partners yeah so the watermark is so what they do is they have this horrible green water they chuck these oysters and it turns it completely clear that's amazing I did not know that I did know that they used to eat lobsters and they thought of lobsters as poor people food sure yeah yeah in New Brunswick they used to harvest the lobsters to feed to the prisoners and keep the shells as fertilizer this person was one of the first presidents to bring the lobster into the White House because it was seen as a servant's food when did it switch Jefferson so when he started doing that that's what people realized it was so delicious no that's made a lot socially if we changed the whole thing the lobster spaghetti that's that's off the chart you know so the child labor laws we're in stored primarily because of the kids that used to work in noiser shucking plants really yeah yeah we had a one of our best friend if not our best friend passed away like six months ago John bill he was a great talker you helped us at the bar but he's like deep into sustainability and history of oysters and everything and he was like the source for oysters for everything he wrote a beautiful book yeah almost send you a copy it's an incredible book there are good food for vegans to consider too because they're more primitive than most plants ya know smallest John used to call them ocean cupcakes well they're delicious it's a great source of protein but it's also they don't have any nerve endings and they're not feeling any it's a sea vegetable yeah it basically is we have an issue or some people not myself but some people have an issue with things that are capable of moving yeah for whatever reason we just decide that don't eat that but if you want to talk about something sustainable like mollusks and seafood I mean they can be commercially farmed they actually do have a positive impact as you're describing on the environment incredible source of protein as well yeah yeah and really Oh a complete source of protein not like a very bioavailable source unlike a lot of vegetable proteins

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Published: Thu Nov 15 2018