Future Agriculture and Food
The future will indeed come. Everything will get interesting. Food, lives, and more… Today, we will examine and think about the agriculture and nutrition of the future in article style!
In the last two decades, there has been a shift from push-button phones to touchscreen foldable phones. Space exploration has become a legitimate industry. Agricultural discoveries and technological advances have changed the way farmers source, plant and harvest crops. Everything has changed, everything except nutrition. The United Nations (UN) predicts that food production should be increased by 70% by 2050 in order to feed the world population.
When we come to 2050, eating at our favorite restaurant will become a completely different experience. The robot waiter will greet you, take you to your table and give you the menu. Here you will be able to order from a holographic menu. We will be able to see very interesting things on the menu apart from the ones we are used to. For example, in Caesar’s salad, instead of chicken, there will be worms and insects prepared to put in dishes richer in protein. Now, the hamburger made from meat produced in the laboratory will be in front of you. In your hamburger, besides the meat produced in laboratories, there are lettuce leaves produced from underground agriculture and tomatoes that have been modified with their genes and made more delicious and more vitaminized. If you’ve finished your meal and you want dessert, you can choose one of the desserts printed directly on your plate with a 3D printer by robots without waiting too long. If you have never liked these dishes, you can eat pizza with lots of vitamins and lots of protein. All you have to do is buy a 3D printer. By choosing pizza, which is one of the food options you can choose from this 3D printer, you will have eaten one of the most preferred meals of the future. So what will be in this pizza? A good pizza with meat pieces made of high-protein insects, i.e. creepy insects, laboratory-prepared meats and genetically modified vegetables.
If we go back to today, there are studies on this subject. For example, the pancake printing machine developed by Beijing Hession 3D Technology can be given as an example.
The food we just mentioned may sound repulsive and nauseating. But there may be a solution for the salvation of humanity in the future famine. In the past years, the world population has reached 7 billion and it is estimated that this number will exceed 9 billion by 2050. One in nine people still cannot find enough food for a healthy diet, while the rapidly growing middle-class population is expected to reach 4.9 billion by 2030. On the other hand, the greenhouse gas produced as a result of our animal husbandry methods causes a lot of damage to the environment. Meat is one of the best starting points in this regard. By 2050, it is predicted that meat consumption in the world will increase by 76%. However, methane gas from cows causes global warming 25 times more than CO2. For this reason, it shows that the consumption of some animal foods should be reduced.
In response to this problem, it is foreseen that insects should replace meat as a solution. Insects, which are highly nutritious, are ecologically more sustainable sources of protein and vitamins than meat. Insects cause less greenhouse gas emissions and take up less space than cattle farming. As such, it consumes much less water, and insects like grasshoppers only need 2 kilos of food for every kilo they take in. In 2013, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reached an important conclusion about edible insects as alternative food and their future prospects. Insects are already consumed as a traditional food by 2 billion people around the world, and 1,900 insect species are used as food. All the features we need are found in insects. Insects, which are very good in terms of nutritional value, also contain useful oils. But insects are not seen in western culture. Therefore, it is very difficult to switch to a meat-free diet.
That’s why Dr. In his lab in Maastricht, Post has long worked to meet the global demand for meat without harming the environment or even animals. As a result of this study, artificial meat, that is, laboratory meat has emerged. Even if you don’t think we can eat these foods in the future, it is predicted that we will consume these foods as the only solution due to changing climatic conditions and global warming. With global warming and climate change, we will not have problems only with the consumption of animal foods, but the inefficient harvests that develop with the change of climate show that agriculture will change in the future.
When we come to 2050, the world population will be 9 billion, that is, there will be about 2 billion more people compared to now. However, to meet the needs, 70 percent more food must be produced than is currently being produced. However, agricultural lands on our planet are limited, most of them are already used, and it is not possible to grow more in parallel with this population increase. There will be a great struggle in agriculture in the future! The global food industry today is not sustainable. However, agriculture is responsible for a third of the greenhouse gases produced by humans. The nitrous oxide emitted from fertilizers and the carbon dioxide they release into the environment during the transport of their products from one place to another prevent the heat in the atmosphere from escaping and causing global warming.
global, causing climate. Anyway, this is agriculture. Scientists think it’s possible to produce healthier, healthier plants that can withstand all kinds of things for humans to exist. But it will produce more vegetables and fruits and cause more greenhouse gas emissions. However, we should know that most of this greenhouse gas emission is due to livestock. To solve this problem, we should consume less meat. However, finding a large proportion of carnivores worldwide required almost 300,000,000 carnivores. For example, sausage can be eaten without being beaten between toast while eating.
It looks like it will be farming in the next 5–10 years. His son has already changed. They will provide agricultural land with automatic vehicles and dairy automatic machines. In this way, we can benefit from life and energy. These machines are spreading like a virus all over the world. This plus 30 years from now, we will be able to see very different things in a store. In addition, this situation will create a major employment problem. For the simplest example, the business, the factory, the animal food wholesalers, and the butchers are all very clear in a great small town to live in!
As for the contribution of artificial meat, that is, laboratory meat, to the world, the global meat demand will double in the next 30 years. The methods applied today are not sustainable. Because large areas are needed for livestock. However, their needs such as water and alfalfa to consume are obvious. We need to find a solution to this problem, as we cannot meet the needs of livestock when we are unable to meet the needs of people, with the global climate change, which is caused by the developing world and increasing global warming of these resources, and the effects of which we have felt quite a lot lately. Many scientists predict that this problem can be solved by producing meat produced in laboratories. These applications have already been started by Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Stem cells from a living cow will be able to generate muscle tissue and turn it into a delicious patty. The biggest gain to the world from lab meat is its yield. With stem cells taken from a single cow, 175,000,000 hamburger patties can be produced. Normally, 440,000 cows have to be slaughtered to produce that much meat. This method is applicable not only for veal but also for chicken meat. He was fine saying this, but scientists pointed out that we should wait until 2030 before we eat this meat. Because right now the price of this meat is 280,000 dollars. We will only have to wait 10 years for this price to drop. But if there are people who do not want to eat, these meats can also be produced with plants. In other words, in the near future, laboratory meat will enter our lives with sales in markets cheaper than conventional meat. Meat produced from plants will be offered for sale as a solution for those who want organic, that is, classic meat.
But sometimes bad thinking is good for solutions to future problems. If the production of laboratory meats does not progress as we would like, we have already declared that we will definitely eat the insects we will eat in the future. But we should not look badly at insects. African and Asian peoples already eat insects for food. In the near future, these little foods seem to enter the lives of western peoples. The World Health Organization declared that insects are healthier, environmentally friendly, and sustainable. In fact, insect farms have already begun to be established all over the world. In addition, most insects are nutritious and rich in important needs such as calcium, fat, iron, zinc, and protein. Insects, which require less space for normal meat production, are cold-blooded and are very good at converting food into protein. To produce the same amount of protein, cows must consume 10 times more food than insects. In addition, most importantly, because insects can eat leftovers and feces, the waste is recycled. Therefore insects are absolutely sustainable. There are many more possibilities in the future, and there are many ideas. But the only thing that will not change is that this journey has already begun.
