future of food
I Survived Eating Edible Plates for a Day
The term "clean plates" has been taken to a whole new level.
The Plastic Wrap of the Future Will Be Made Out of Milk
We'll be eating our food packaging within the next few years.
Why Bee-Friendly Cities Are the Key to World Food Security
According to community ecologist Dr. Mick Hanley, “biodiversity needs to be incorporated into urban planning in a much more strategic way than has been done so far.”
Are These Insanely Realistic Fake Shrimp the Future of Sustainable Seafood?
This San Francisco-based startup has developed a faux shrimp made in a lab from algae and plants, and it tastes so much like the real thing that its founders say people can’t tell the difference.
It's 2016, So Where Are All the Meal-Replacement Pills Already?
As far back as the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, people were speculating and writing about the inevitable arrival, one day, of a food pill that would replace conventional meals.
No Animals Were Harmed in the Making of this $1,000 Meatball
Just to prove that they are serious, they have just presented their first lab-grown meatball—a $1,000 meatball—to the public.
Why We Should Eat Baked Beans If We Want a Sustainable Food Future
“By replacing some of the animal protein in our diets with vegetable protein from pulses, the world's growing food requirements could be met."
How Climate Change Will Completely Transform Wine as We Know It
As the planet warms, time-honored wine-producing regions are becoming inhospitable to classic grape varietals. Forget France: Iceland and the Yukon might be the appellations of the future.
We Spoke to Vandana Shiva About the Future of Food
Indian environmental activist and fiercely anti-GMO campaigner Vandana Shiva has dedicated her life to championing organic agriculture as the only solution to global food scarcity—a viewpoint not all share.
Why This Sea Urchin Diver Is Building an Arctic Farm for the Future
Amid the rugged and icy mountains of Norway, one couple's mission to create an Arctic farm for the future is growing.
Meet the 20-Somethings Who Are Copying the World's Rarest Wines Without Using Grapes
What if you could identify the molecules that comprise a 1973 Chateau Montelena and then reassemble them from scratch? Ava Winery is here to find out.
This Startup Is Making Dairy Milk Without Cows
Made from real milk proteins combined with plant-based sugar, healthy plant fats, vitamins, and minerals, Perfect Day has the same taste and texture as cow’s milk, but never comes out of an udder.