ARGONAUT BOOKS

Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean's depths, creating one of the world's most productive marine ecosystems: the Humboldt Current. When the region's teeming populations of fish were converted into a key ingredient in animal feed - fishmeal - it fuelled the revolution in chicken, hog, and fish farming that swept the United States and northern Europe after World War II. 'The Fishmeal Revolution' explores industrialization along the Peru-Chile coast as fishmeal producers pulverized and exported unprecedented volumes of marine proteins to...Read More