What are we going to eat in the future?

 

Thanks to the well-developed technology, the population is still growing and will grow in the future. However, food which is also a resource has a certain limit and we need to think about what are we going to eat in the future. Maybe this is not a problem that is close to us, but nobody knows about the future. Also, environmental issues are related to the production food. So, it will be great if we can find some better alternatives for our regular meal. There are many on-going studies about the new food. Also, there are some alternatives that we can choose. I’m going to introduce some of those options that we can choose in the future.

I prepared a short video about eating insects for food.  The insect can be an option for the future food because insects provide similar nutritional value with the real meat. Also, according to the researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, they cost less to raise compare to the livestock and also a good source of the protein. Moreover, there are many kinds of insects which are edible for the human. Some of the world’s population already started to eat insects for their regular meal. Including African countries, Japan and Thailand. But kind of disgusting image of insects is a thing that we need to overcome.

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The meat produced in the lab also can be an option. In 2012, Dutch scientists made the cultured meat (lab-grown meat) successfully. They grew muscle tissue of cow by using stem cells and resembled it with calamari. According to the study from Oxford University, they found that lab-grown meat can reduce greenhouse gases and also can save energy and water. Those are advantages that we can’t get if we keep growing livestock for the meat. Moreover, we can add healthy nutrients to lab-grown meat.

Many studies are still ongoing and there will be more studies about this topic. If we successfully replace our regular meal with those new alternatives, it will be great for all of us.

 

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One thought on “What are we going to eat in the future?

  1. Seung Min Park

    After read your blog post, I consider about our future food. These days on the news, not only food but also water supply is getting decrease. That’s why we need think about our future and find out alternative of food. As you mention above, the insect can be one of the alternative. I research one article which is about future food. Here is the link about the article.
    http://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Future-of-Food
    Great post.

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