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We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Re: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Post by mido22 »

slimed wrote: post #42
worik wrote: post #30

Meh. The hippies were right. Eat food your grandmother would recognise. Eat it as unprocessed as practical. Eat a lot of it raw. But I bet where people have no choice (in prison, public hospitals, schools, on food stamps...) it will become compulsory.

Or how about the billions more people we will have in the coming decades? Population growth in the global south in addition to crop destabilization due to climate change will be a crisis. This is one possible solution. Eating "real" food may end up a luxury for most.

Not sure why are downvoted, You have made some valid points

Re: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Post by mido22 »

mogadsheu wrote: post #11

While I don’t disagree with the sentiment of the report, I do question its credibility. They don’t cite their sources, but do make bold claims with broad statistics and buzz words. Looking into the authors, they don’t lack credentials, but it seems like they’re newsletter and report writers, not people who are putting skin in the game to back their claims. First impression: be skeptical of “the Seba Technology Disrup…

try looking at the linked report, it has about 116 references.

Re: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Post by lazyasciiart »

ac29 wrote: post #55
seveneightn9ne wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll believe that when our CO2 output per year stops accelerating (never mind when it actually starts shrinking!)

CO2 emissions have been falling in the US for over 10 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...

That page needs some love - this page has more recent and comprehensive data https://www.c2es.org/content/u-s-emissions/

Re: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Post by varjag »

worik wrote: post #30

Meh. The hippies were right. Eat food your grandmother would recognise. Eat it as unprocessed as practical. Eat a lot of it raw. But I bet where people have no choice (in prison, public hospitals, schools, on food stamps...) it will become compulsory.

My grandmother didn't live to 70.

Re: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

concordDance wrote: post #65

I'm worried that these new constructed foods will be lacking in components or structure in a way that our natural selection created digestive system is poorly optimized for, leading to mass malnourishment.

Surprise! Current food is deficient in many ways, and not what our digestion is optimized for.

The opportunity is, to create foods that better match what we need. Instead of eating the random cow we fixed on for our modern meat supply.

Re: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Post by whytaka »

zaroth wrote: post #32

Looking around I see examples like this everwhere, where the science seems to be rapidly advancing new approaches and techniques which will feed, cloth, transport, teach, and entertain billions of people in ways that are more economical and ecological . Examples like these are why I'm convinced that environmental impact reduction and ultimately rejuvenation is possible without massively disrupting life as we know it.…

It’s also important that whatever we invent, we gift them to developing countries so that that they orient their country’s development towards a sustainable path without having to go through the carbon hungry middle stage.

Re: We are on the cusp of a disruption in food and agricultural production

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Post by pfdietz »

sologoub wrote: post #49

As others mentioned, this reads more like a PR piece than a research claim. More importantly, the health benefits claim has been debunked before: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/impossible-burger-or-b... > The challenge here is that these offerings aren’t actually any healthier. The Impossible Whopper, for instance, not only has comparable caloric and fat levels as its meat-based counterpart, but it has more sa…

You are assuming that fat and sodium are unhealthy.

I suggest the real health problem of beef could be a particular carbohydrate (Neu5Gc) that non-human mammals have Impossible Burgers would avoid this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Glycolylneuraminic_acid

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