Look at the research that governing elites commission and read, not what they say. UK FIRES takes an absolute view of Net Zero and bases its work on existing technologies, not the pie in the sky inventions still to come and the whacky schemes that cannot reach economic scale.
UK FIRES is an influential body since it takes a rare honest approach to Net Zero. Among the horrors outlined in its latest report is a future reliance on highly-processed food – industrial test-tube sludge in other words. Using labs to produce just 0.4% of the projected demand for meat in 2030 would involve a capacity “20 times that of the current pharmaceutical industry”, observe the authors.
The need to collapse the existing agro-food system is said to present opportunities for the creation of “hybrid” food products. Animal fat, presumably from non-belching beasts, can be processed to give “definitive flavour and mouth feel of meat” and these can be combined with plant-based ingredients. Alternative proteins (not detailed, but there is much support elsewhere for fly larvae and mealworm flour) might be used in highly processed foods.
In future, notes UK FIRES, processed
plants might include ingredients from precision fermentation or
cultivated fats. These are all held together by half of the chemistry
lab including stabilisers, colourings, E numbers and preservatives –
though UK FIRES inexplicably fails to give the detail on this. And not
forgetting masses of salt and sugar, a common staple of so-called
healthy processed foods designed to give them a semblance of pleasant
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