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tquid, to upliftingnews in From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California's kelp forests show promise

Anyone initially read this as “orphan crushing”?

AA5B,

I was about to get all political with it too … as the theme of one of the political parties in the US

CuddlyCassowary,

I read it accurately as urchin crushing, but still thought they were talking about destitute children at first (a la Oliver Twist).

Viking_Hippie,

🙋🏻

gravitas_deficiency, to upliftingnews in From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California's kelp forests show promise

You don’t have to crush sea urchins. You can eat them! And they’re delicious!

MorrisonMotel6,

I’m betting you didn’t read the article

gravitas_deficiency,

I mean, this is lemmy.

But also, yeah, I didn’t realize they were actually so pervasive that they’ve destroyed 96% of the kelp forests in that area.

MorrisonMotel6,

And they are also eating them, but specify these urchins specifically have less roe and other edible parts, so they are basically more trouble than they’re worth to eat

threelonmusketeers,

Sea urchins as a food source was addressed in the article:

Red urchins are favored over the purple urchins because they contain more edible uni or roe inside, but commercial divers say the amount has shrunk with less kelp.

Chefs have started serving purple urchins to build a market.

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