🍔 Food Tech
A lot of innovation is going on in food tech, making food cheaper, more nutritious, better tasting and with less emissions during production. Here you'll find articles about AI, sensors and IoT, big data, digital biology, precision farming, cell-grown meat, GMO and automation.
🍔 Worlds first factory for cultured meat is now running
Cultivated meat is now taking the step to industrial production. Future Meat has set up a factory in Rehovot, Isreal, with the aim of making cell-grown meat affordable for everyone.
🍺 Leftovers from beer brewing can be used as biofuel
Researchers have found a way to make use of enzymes and bacterias to make both biofuel and animal feeds out of leftovers from beer brewerig.
🌱 Viral outbreaks cause plant-based foods to grow at a record rate
Consumption of meat is declining in large parts of the world, while we are eating more plant-based foods. Virus outbreaks and pandemics seem to be accelerating this development, says Warp News Food Tech expert Daniel Skavén Ruben.
🍲 Ikea's cookbook helps you turn food waste into feasts
Much of what we throw in the compost can be eaten and Ikea wants us to be better at eating even what may look a little unappetizing.
✂ Crispr will save our bananas
A disease threatens to eradicate the only banana variety we eat today, but with Crispr technology, researchers can make bananas resistant.
🌱 Simple super fast growing plant can help with both food scarcity and climate change
Scientists are trying to understand how and why the plant Duckweed grows so fast. Getting clues from the plant’s genes could help with both food scarcity and climate change.
🥗 Are you ready for the new food? – Invasive species, insects and fish on land
We already know that meat production, trawling, and one-sided farming in mega-format are environmental culprits with an end date. But now new types of climate-smart food are being developed.
🌟 1: 360 - one hectare of vertical cultivation produces as much as three hundred and sixty hectares of traditional cultivation
Vertical crops are considered to be truly sustainable. Startups have already attracted hundreds of billions of dollars to the area.
🌴 The project that saved 18,000 square kilometers of rainforest
An agreement between growers and buyers shows that it is possible to increase soy production in Brazil without felling any rainforest.