--- title: Five Best Ideas: The Case Against Fish description: The case against eating fish, a robot to help kids with autism improve their social skills, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4722918/the-case-against-fish/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-03T16:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:57.523Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Case Against Fish og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4722918/the-case-against-fish/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Case Against Fish twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Case Against Fish by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 3, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 3, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Should we stop eating fish?**](https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-against-eating-fish/) By Laura McDonnell in the _Walrus_ **2\.** [**If Trump really wants to save money on foreign aid, here are some smart ways to start.**](http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2017/03/31/taking%5Fthe%5Fscalpel%5Fto%5Fforeign%5Faid%5F112271.html) By Jared Pincin and Brian Brenberg in _RealClearWorld_ **3\.** [**Kitchen workers are some of the lowest-paid around. Maybe revenue-sharing can help.**](http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/03/21/restaurant-revenue-sharing) By Simón Rios at _WBUR_ **4\.** [**This British robot helps autistic children overcome social challenges.**](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1721QL) By Matthew J. Stock at _Reuters_ **5\.** [**Colleges Can Spark a Rust Belt Revival**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-30/colleges-can-spark-a-rust-belt-revival) By Noah Smith in _Bloomberg View_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4722918/the-case-against-fish/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4722918/the-case-against-fish/"},"headline":"The Case Against Fish","datePublished":"2017-04-03T16:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:57.523Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4722918/the-case-against-fish/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Autism","robots","Foreign Aid","fish"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4722918/the-case-against-fish/","name":"The Case Against Fish"}}]}] ```