The Future of Food

Lab-grown meats 
It is possible today if you suffer from a skin burn for a hospital to grow you new skin from 
a biological printer. The idea of growing meat in a lab is not that shocking or new 
anymore. Known as “cultured meat,” it could provide a way for vegetarians and vegans to 
eat animal products without inflicting any animal suffering. It’s far too expensive at the 
moment for widespread distribution and consumption but technologies like this tend to get 

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less expensive over time. As the cost of producing meat using grasslands for grazing or 
grains in in a feed lot go up, the cost of cultured meat becomes more and more 
competitive. 
Lab-grown hamburger.
Eat up! 
There is ongoing research into how to keep things the same with respect to our food 
production system. But the speed of change in terms of climate and population growth 
mean that adaptation to the new normal will happen over time. The new production 
systems each come with their own costs and benefits, including environmental costs and 
benefits, which I have not covered in this post. Each of the four new food sources 
identified in this post are highly likely to grow in importance in the years to come. 
So get ready to eat up!