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SOUNDS YUMMY

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

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Visualizing The Science Behind Cultured Meat

Cultured foods – also known as cell-based foods – are expected to turn our global food system as we know it on its head.

In fact, the cultured meat market is estimated to reach an eye-watering $25 billion by 2030 according to McKinsey, but only if it can overcome hurdles such as price parity and consumer acceptance.

To do so, significant innovation in the science behind these products will be crucial for the industry’s growth.

In the graphic below from CULT Food Science, Visual Capitalist’s Katie Jones and Sabrina Lam provide a visual overview of some of the technologies behind the creation of cultured meat products. Continue reading “SOUNDS YUMMY”

How To Write an Article Without Knowing Anything About the Subject

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

The big glossy style magazines have gone all in with their commitment to lower the standards of journalism to the point that anyone could write anything and as long as it fulfilled some part of the agenda and they will publish it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/just-finless-foods-lab-grown-meat/587227/

The basic premise is this: You peons are going to have to start eating Soylent Green, like it or not.

I don’t think that writers have an obligation to know everything about their subject matter, but they have a responsibility to at least be curious about it. That rarely happens any longer. If you are writing a piece on a future world where all of our proteins come from a laboratory rather than from Nature, shouldn’t we wonder about some of the consequences of such a radical departure from evolutionary history?

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