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 planet's. 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 outsider's 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 agribusiness's 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 population-sustainably.
A revolution in how we grow and eat food is brewing. Munson's deftly crafted profiles offer a fascinating preview of the
coming future of food.
- ISBN10 1642831905
- ISBN13 9781642831900
- Publish Date 29 October 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Island Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English