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Novel foods will be cheaper, more nutritious and healthier than current alternatives
The food disruption will free up 80% of land—an area the size of the United States, China and Australia combined.
In our report Rethinking Food & Agriculture 2020-2030, we outlined how novel technologies like PF and CA would disrupt and transform our food systems, creating decentralized, equitable and environmentally friendly modes of food production, and better-tasting, healthier food!
We outlined how these technologies would form a new model of food production we call Food-as-Software (FaS).
The disruption of food & agriculture
PF and CA will compete with animal products of all kinds.
PF will make protein production five times cheaper than existing animal proteins by 2030, and 10 times cheaper by 2035. This will have a profound impact on industrial animal farming.
Race to the top
First movers who embrace the coming disruption will provide access to healthier, superior, cheaper foods. This will create an upward spiral of prosperity and opportunity.
The best path forward for decision-makers is to embrace disruptions, and intervene as little as possible except to protect individuals and communities. The disruption should unfold according to its own internal dynamics.
Witness the transformation
This transformation will present an unprecedented opportunity for conservation, rewilding and reforestation.
Even without active reforestation, the passive reforestation of land through the process of natural recovery will capture and store carbon equivalent to up to 20% of today’s global emissions.
New PF foods will be up to 100 times more land efficient, 10-25 times more feedstock efficient, 20 times more time efficient, and 10 times more water efficient.
FOOD & AGRICULTURE REPORT
Rethinking Food & Agriculture 2020-2030
Rethinking Food and Agriculture 2020-2030 (published 2019) shows how the novel food disruption, made possible by rapid advances in precision biology and an entirely new model of production we call Food-as-Software, will have profound implications not just for the industrial agriculture industry, but for the wider economy, society and the environment.
The disruption of food and agriculture is inevitable.
The cost of proteins will be five times cheaper than existing animal proteins by 2030, and 10 times cheaper by 2035. Protein will eventually be nearly as cheap as sugar
Modern products will be cheaper and superior in every conceivable way.
The aim of this report is to start a conversation and focus decision-makers’ attention on the scale, speed and impact of the modern food disruption.
