"We don't want to supply restaurants with their weekly produce," Bob Jones said.
The idea is a dulse farm outside London, Berlin, Paris, or Tokyo to supply restaurants with fresh dulse every day".
And many small farmers who supply restaurants with produce have been expanding into poultry, making farm eggs ubiquitous on restaurant menus.
Although most shark fin products are traded through Hong Kong, some are sent to local markets around the world that supply restaurants.
In the past year, they have been able to supply restaurants like Paul Kahan's Blackbird, Avec and the Publican, plus dozens of others from their 10-acre vegetable plot.
Paulette Satur, owner of the organic Satur Farms in Cutchogue, on Long Island, grows heirloom dwarf sugar snap peas called Sugar Ann to supply restaurants (although the season has ended).
Last April, a man spotted a truck on a Beijing highway that was packed with more than 500 dogs being shipped to slaughterhouses that supply restaurants in northern China.
We supply restaurants through wholesalers across the UK, and we also sell veg to restaurants and pubs within a 10-mile radius – that's great for us to see, and to eat!
Another issue is that the law permits captive breeding centres, which often do more to supply restaurants and pharmacies than protect wild animals, even though they are listed as conservation centres.
