Volatile food prices and a growing population mean we have to rethink what we eat, say food futurologists. So what might we be serving up in 20 years' time?
It's not immediately obvious what links Nasa, the price of meat and brass bands, but all three are playing a part in shaping what we will eat in the future and how we will eat it.
I predict that in 20 years time, in the UK at least, that the diet will be broadly similar to that eaten today, but with less meat, and that food will be more expensive.
I suspect that such meat as will be available will consist of more lamb or mutton and less beef.
Cattle are often grazed on prime land that may be needed for crops.
Sheep can be kept on marginal land that is of little value for arable farming. Wool demand may increase due to oil depletion rendering synthetic alternatives more costly. More sheep kept for wool=more mutton to eat.
There will still be some out of season imported foods, but less than today because transport will be more expensive, and exporting countries will need more for their own populations.
20 years is not that far away and I doubt that huge changes will occur.
"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"
What will we be eating in 2032? Much like today - food. Does anyone eat anything else?
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Perhaps Oats? To paraphrase:
Oats: 'A nutritious grain that in Scotland feeds men and in England feeds horses'.
Anybody have the rejoinder to that one?
Oats are delicious and very tasty. Unfortunately, you have to possess a certain character. A character lacking down south. Which explains their lack of manliness, and the preponderance of sissy Englishmen.
Which is why in England they have such fine horses and in Scotland we have such fine men!?
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Oats are definitely under-rated. Filling, versatile and gluten free, can be used in savoury and sweet dishes.
Just oats, water and a little salt and you're set up for a morning's work. What an alien concept!
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
