Rethinkx tells me that food-as-software will replace the animal-agriculture system.
It sounds strange, doesn't it? Maybe reminds me of Star Trek. "Foods engineered by scientists at a molecular level will be uploaded to databases that can be accessed by food designers anywhere in the world."
And this: "Anywhere we brew beer we will be able to produce food."
One of the promises is being able to replace our system of breeding industrial farm animals for mass-market consumption.
The prediction is that the number of cows in the U.S. will fall by 50% by 2030. It is 2024 now - that's only 6 years away. The numbers themselves are staggering: In 2021, the USDA reported that there were just over 1 billion head of cattle and nearly 26 billion chickens in the world – far outnumbering humans.
Can you imagine the size and scope of change? All that farm land no longer for grazing and crops to feed the grazers. I hope the crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain are paying attention.
Will we adapt or resist this precision fermentation approach? Will it take longer than six years. My bet is that we will adapt as the prices will be attractive.
We eat "cheese food" now.That's a combination of cheese mixed with emulsifying agents, vegetable oils, unfermented dairy ingredients, salt, food colouring, sugar. It contains 50 to 60% cheese and then the other stuff.
Pringles are reconstituted potatoes. We think they are just fine. They are dried potatoes, vegetable oil, germinated yellow corn flour, cornstarch, rice flower, maltodextrin, mono-and diglycerides, salt and wheat starch. Bet you didn't know all of that.
And the most processed foods we don't worry about?
chocolate and candies.
potato chips and pretzels.
sauces, dressings and gravies.
ice cream and frozen desserts.
bakery products like muffins and cakes.
fast foods like French fries and burgers.
frozen entrées like pasta dishes and pizzas.
processed meats like sausages and deli meats.
They left out cereals, sugar substitutes, coffee creamer, and margarine. So many things are already out there.
This is the back garden Japanese Maple from a few years ago. It hasn't started to change colours yet. This is the promise of Autumn - fantastic colours on the horizon.
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