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As I understand it for now - we would still grow crops for bread and pasta and rice, and fruit and veggies and herbs and spices for flavour and texture. But if you are into farming beef or lambs or chicken or turkey or ducks or any animals - even fish - be worried. Precision Fermentation could bankrupt you in the next 5 to 10 years. Which is a GOOD thing for the environment and food security of the human race (and even space exploration!) But it's a bad thing for you - if you're a cattle rancher. I'm sorry - you'll have to retrain, grow timber for carbon credits or get a combination of forestry and eco-tourism and solar or wind farms on your farm. Everything we thought we knew about food is about to change forever. It's the biggest leap in 10,000 years!
Let me illustrate how big a leap this is. Imagine you're in a world with a much deadlier pandemic than Covid - say a 50% mortality rate - and you've found the cure and vaccine all in one! Imagine you're a climate scientist and have all the models in your head and are pretty sure we're heading for WW3 because of it - but you wake up one day and find out there's this thing called renewable energy. Imagine you know an asteroid is heading for earth - just as in "Don't Look Up" - and you wake up one day to find out Elon had already sent a Starship up to nuke the thing out the way. That's how big this is!
All around the world, vital ecosystems are being undermined by weakened forests. They're being chopped down for palm oil and soy beans. Various species are on the brink of extinction. All this extra logging and burning increases CO2 emissions. It's carnage out there, with increasing pollution and smoke from Indonesian fires making it barely breathable in Singapore - and that's just one example. Then this magic 'electric food' grown in a vat comes along - and undermines the business case for soy beans and palm oil! They've already grown proteins and fats that mimic the same proteins as chicken and fats as palm oil! There's already ice cream and cheese cream and milk being sold - milk without lactose but with exactly the same taste and proteins as milk!
Check it out. The biggest change to food in 10,000 years. And we get to see it introduced - before all the livestock farmers go bankrupt - and see the biggest change in food history. It's like we're at the dawn of Henry Ford's car era - just getting a glimpse of what could be coming.
Over to George Monbiot.
I'm excited!
Let me illustrate how big a leap this is. Imagine you're in a world with a much deadlier pandemic than Covid - say a 50% mortality rate - and you've found the cure and vaccine all in one! Imagine you're a climate scientist and have all the models in your head and are pretty sure we're heading for WW3 because of it - but you wake up one day and find out there's this thing called renewable energy. Imagine you know an asteroid is heading for earth - just as in "Don't Look Up" - and you wake up one day to find out Elon had already sent a Starship up to nuke the thing out the way. That's how big this is!
All around the world, vital ecosystems are being undermined by weakened forests. They're being chopped down for palm oil and soy beans. Various species are on the brink of extinction. All this extra logging and burning increases CO2 emissions. It's carnage out there, with increasing pollution and smoke from Indonesian fires making it barely breathable in Singapore - and that's just one example. Then this magic 'electric food' grown in a vat comes along - and undermines the business case for soy beans and palm oil! They've already grown proteins and fats that mimic the same proteins as chicken and fats as palm oil! There's already ice cream and cheese cream and milk being sold - milk without lactose but with exactly the same taste and proteins as milk!
Check it out. The biggest change to food in 10,000 years. And we get to see it introduced - before all the livestock farmers go bankrupt - and see the biggest change in food history. It's like we're at the dawn of Henry Ford's car era - just getting a glimpse of what could be coming.
Over to George Monbiot.
I'm excited!