The Future of Eating

Population increases like compound interest. It is really serious stuff. Humans may eventually multiply themselves out of existence.

In the past 50 years world population has doubled. It's now at about 7.4 Billion. They say by 2050 it will be 10 Billion - and maybe more. And it will continually increase year after year into the future.

But it's not only the number of people that's worrying. It's what people want and need.

Where are all the jobs coming from, the homes, the schools, the medical and social services and all those things people want. We are already at crisis point.

And people want cars. There are 1.2 Billion cars on the world's roads at the moment and it may be 2 Billion by 2035.  Think of those traffic jams.

And people need FOOD.

At the moment we slaughter more than 60 billion animals annually for meat. More than 3,000 animals die every second in slaughterhouses around the world and meat production is a major planet polluter and waster of valuable water supplies.

Hopefully slaughterhouses will be no more - No more rivers of blood

Yet meat is currently in high demand despite health warnings from the WHO and numerous other oprganisations. Intensified livestock farming has moved into an horrific Frankenstein period that sullies our moral standards because of the gross animal cruelty involved. Mass meat production has become a cruel monster that shames us all.

But food as we know it is changing.

Science has helped the monstrous meat expansion but meat and farming in its present form is unlikely to endure. While synthetic or "lab" meats are likely to replace the present land and water wasting livestock practises of today, I believe there there will eventually be a huge new expansion of fruit and vegetable consumption - and totally new scientifically developed foods.

Increased world population, high food prices and the introduction of many "chemicalised" and processed new foods will change the nature of what we presently know as food. This Age of Eating as we know it - will end.

Slaughterhouses will disappear and food factories will process synthetic concoctions instead of the live flesh of millions of poor dear force grown birds, animals and sea creatures.

Future dining may be like in one of those SciFi movies where everything has a strange colour and comes in a small microwave package...and everyone (for some reason) is slim.

People won't really know what they are eating - just like it often is today. You will just have to believe the words on the package.

Natural fruit and vegetables may be hard to find as arable land becomes scarce and humans cover the planet in concrete and housing.

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