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Tech to Table

Richard Munson

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  • 224 sidor
  • 2021
Imagine eating a burger grown in a laboratory, a strawberry picked by a robot, or a pastry created with a 3-D printer. You would never taste the difference, but these technologies might just save your health and the planets. Today, landmark advances in computing, engineering, and medicine are driving solutions to the biggest problems created by industrialized food. Tech to Table introduces readers to twenty-five of the most creative entrepreneurs advancing these solutions. They come from various places and professions, identities and backgrounds. But they share an outsiders perspective and an idealistic, sometimes aggressive, ambition to rethink the food system. Reinvention is desperately needed. Under Big Ag, pollution, climate change, animal cruelty, hunger, and obesity have festered, and despite decades of effort, organic farming accounts for less than one percent of US croplands. Entrepreneurs represent a new path, one where disruptive technology helps people and the environment. These innovations include supplements to lower the methane in cattle belches, drones that monitor irrigation levels in crops, urban warehouses that grow produce year-round, and more. The pace and breadth of change is astonishing, as investors pump billions of dollars into ag-innovation. Startups are attracting capital and building markets, with the potential to upend conventional agribusinesss stranglehold on the food system. Not every invention will prosper long-term, but each marks a fundamental change in our approach to feeding a growing populationsustainably. A revolution in how we grow and eat food is brewing. Munsons deftly crafted profiles offer a fascinating preview of the coming future of food.
  • Författare: Richard Munson
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781642831900
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-29
  • Förlag: Island Press