FUTURE HUMAN
The Future of Food Goes Way Beyond Lab-Grown Meat
How late-stage capitalism, climate change, and space travel will transform our diets
When you think about the future, what do you picture? Is it a Jetsons-style province, filled with cities in the sky? Is it closer to Mad Max — a dystopian, environmentally ravaged hellworld where scarcity is the ruling principle? Or is it just like 2018, only people live longer and look a little more like robots?
Whatever the future looks like, one thing is certain: We’ll still need to eat something. But what exactly we’re consuming could take any number of forms: bloody burgers grown in a laboratory, goopy protein shakes, curiously uniform apples, nicely seasoned crickets.
And that’s just the food itself. Will we still value the act of sitting down for a meal? What will the first space colony’s food system look like? To find out what the future of food looks (and tastes) like, we asked a group of experts, including nutritionists, anthropologists, food historians, and one lucky entomologist, to give us the scoop.
- Marion Nestle: Nutritionist, food studies expert, and author; former NYU professor and adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Glenn Davis Stone…
