Description: Tech to Table25 Innovators Reimagining Food Author(s): Richard Munson Format: Hardback Publisher: Island Press, United States Imprint: Island Press ISBN-13: 9781642831900, 978-1642831900 Synopsis Imagine eating a burger grown in a laboratory, a strawberry picked by a robot, or a pastry created with a 3-D printer. You would never taste the difference, but these technologies might just save your health and the planet's. Today, landmark advances in computing, engineering, and medicine are driving solutions to the biggest problems created by industrialized food. Tech to Table introduces readers to twenty-five of the most creative entrepreneurs advancing these solutions. They come from various places and professions, identities and backgrounds. But they share an outsider's perspective and an idealistic, sometimes aggressive, ambition to rethink the food system. Reinvention is desperately needed. Under Big Ag, pollution, climate change, animal cruelty, hunger, and obesity have festered, and despite decades of effort, organic farming accounts for less than one percent of US croplands. Entrepreneurs represent a new path, one where disruptive technology helps people and the environment. These innovations include supplements to lower the methane in cattle belches, drones that monitor irrigation levels in crops, urban warehouses that grow produce year-round, and more. The pace and breadth of change is astonishing, as investors pump billions of dollars into ag-innovation. Startups are attracting capital and building markets, with the potential to upend conventional agribusiness's stranglehold on the food system. Not every invention will prosper long-term, but each marks a fundamental change in our approach to feeding a growing population-sustainably. A revolution in how we grow and eat food is brewing. Munson's deftly crafted profiles offer a fascinating preview of the coming future of food.
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Book Title: Tech to Table
Publisher: Island Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Engineering & Technology, Pharmacy
Item Height: 229 mm
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Tech to Table: 25 Innovators Reimagining Food
Type: Textbook
Author: Richard Munson
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
