Food
Food
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The Future of Beef in our Diet
Tom Cheesewright, Sliced Bread, Radio 4 Beef in our Diet – A Radio Programme Prompt So …. last Thursday I caught the second half of a programme on Radio 4 at lunchtime. It was worth a listen. Ive posted before about growing food in the lab, it has a future. At the end of the prog a well known presenter stated that in fifty years time he believes we will not be farming beef cattle at scale. Whilst this is not fact, rather it is an informed opinion based on sound science, I tend to agree. Ninety percent of human diet worldwide comes from just 15 crops. That includes just…
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Food Grown in the Lab: Shocking or Revolutionary
Fantastic, we can now have meat, sugar and butter grown in the lab. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ern1zjkvyo Mushrooms are the Future of Our Diet and of our Worldinternal link Meat, sugar and butter grown in the lab How efficient is it to grow meat? Lets have a look. Who is doing it? IFT? We talked to Ivy Farm Technologies in Oxford who are ready to go with lab-grown steaks, made from cells taken from Wagyu and Aberdeen Angus cows. Can you have a fatty steak or streaky bacon? It takes two years at least to grow most steaks.
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Cows Milk in our Diet – the Future
The future of cows milk in our diet is up for discussion. It is the most consumed dairy product in the world by volume and in the UK is cheaper than bottled water. By an accident of genetics, Caucasian peoples are able to digest cows milk, but many are intolerant to some degree. In contrast Asian origin people are, post infancy, unable to digest cows milk effectively. About The Founder of Earth and Leaf – Iain Dunn I think its important here to say a little about me, my apologies… “My career is founded on milk. Early on this was through the family farm. We milked about 36 cows to…
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Mushrooms are the Future of Our Diet and of our World
Mushrooms are the Future. I grew up on a farm that had fields full of Field Mushrooms and Puffballs every autumn. We also had Shaggy Inkcaps and a large number of others fungi too. The Inkcaps grew in a straight line across a large field next to an ancient bridleway. I always wondered why. Now I know – there used to be a hedge there, an ancient hedge. I have never worked on another farm since with a huge variety of fungi out there. They were always near the edge of the wood or a hedge. Sometimes they would appear where a hedge used to be! Key to this is…
