Insects are rapidly decreasing in number but are rapidly becoming more important for plant fertilization

Beans! Other than a comparison between beef and tofu, there wasn’t a single reference towards beans. Pushing the insect agenda only creates hesitancy towards sustainability, whereas beans are delicious!

This would all be so much easier if people were generally more educated on the topics of climate change, food production, biodiversity and its importance and plastic waste and its consequences. Education systems all over the world should teach these things to children, because children who are aware of these problems become adults who can make a change.

Stop asking us to eat bugs, media!! That's disgusting.

All farmers in the world should practice regenerative farming.

At first, ensure stop wasting of food. We should focus on health and should be our priority.

I’m fine with the plant based meat substitutes. I feel better without meat or milk.

More greenhouse agriculture needs to be implemented where there is a winter growing season.

When can we steal food from our phone screen?

“The problem isn’t technology the problem is you. You humans lack the will to change.” The day the earth stood still 2010

Can we just stop subsidising animal agriculture before we even start talking about all these silly things? If people eat meat they should at least pay the full cost.

Organic, sustainable, locally grown and regenerative agriculture. Not easy or cheap but it works.

Bring back ancient crops and foods!

Maybe The Economist should focus on trying to get people to be a normal BMI and stop wasting food through obesity and then driving and flying around that extra weight all the time.

Food production shouldn't be monopolized in the hands of a few who have the capital resources to run operations like these artificial foods labs or vertical farms. I'm not against that becoming a thing, because it sounds great as the means of sustainably producing the food we'll need to feed our increasing population, but we should be simultaneously investing in the ability for the masses to produce organic food locally. Here in Hawaii we are already dependent on food imports, and in the case of disaster we lack the ability to feed ourselves without aid, so we must counter this by growing our own food and being self-sufficient.

My future of food is cannibalism if bug eating becomes a thing

Not arguing that our dietry impacts the supply chain, but isn't passing the responsibility of emissions from the food industry to the consumers a form of green washing? Is this industry doing their part for better processes to reduce their emissions?

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It all depends on what kinds of food or sources of food production you are talking about. The sustainability of the food system is purely a collaboratively systematic work that requires all parts to coordinate and cooperate. Will plant-based food ALONE save the planet? ... how about the extensive farming and the of life pastors in rangelands? It may not be a single/simple answer.

Ms. Delap's use of the phrase "what we currently consider" is all important. For example, lobster, a premier delicacy, was once considered a waste catch and fed to prisoners! So, it all depends on one's _currently informed_ frame of reference. Mr. Fasman's repeated use of the term "price" greatly confuses matters. Americans pay an artificially low _price_ for many food items, animal protein included, due to governmental subsidies. The much more appropriate term is "cost." For, these artificially low prices come at a cost. Anything from the portion of taxes we pay, right through to harm that's inflicted on animals and the environment. Vertical farming is a perfect case in point. Everything about vertical farming is a win; for humans and the planet. This takes into account the perceived energy inputs to which Mr. Fasman refers. On the whole, vertical farming is vastly better, requires drastically fewer direct and indirect inputs. Water is a prime example where vertical farms use a tiny fraction of the water needed for equivalent traditional farms. Other examples include herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers. Add to that argument that vertical farms create opportunities, better, higher paying jobs, and dramatic reductions in post-production energy consumption associated with harvesting and transporting food to market and the solution is beyond obvious. If the U.S. government were truly concerned with health and the environment, the USDA, FDA and EPA would have a coordinated strategic plan to address the effects of industrialized farming and livestock production. From the downstream effects of greenhouse gas emissions, herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers on climate and the environment, ground water, estuaries and littoral waters, to the upstream effects of water misuse, herbicide, pesticide and fertilizer production, as well as seed sterilization, to the epidemics and so-called "lifestyle illnesses" resulting from diet, including meat consumption, the entire system must be overhauled...from the top down. Initiatives on the scale of the Manhattan Project and Apollo Program are needed to solve for economically viable plant-based and synthetic alternatives to animal protein production and consumption; both here and abroad. The bottom line is that we can't currently feed the 7.8 billion people on the planet with the current system, let alone a projected population of 10 billion by 2050. Mother Nature has warned us as such for 50 years now. It's way passed time to wake up!

They needed to speak on regenerative agriculture techniques.

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We need a CO2 rating system on all foods, so consumers can make informed purchases. Actually we need a CO2 rating on every consumer item, including packing As far as scaling up lab grown meats and costs, eat less. Meat wasn’t traditionally eaten everyday, and especially every meal. Eat less. You can start doing that TODAY to lower your consumer CO2 levels with traditionally raised animal based flesh… eat less of it, less often. It should be a garnish, not a main dish

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food production isnt the first problem we have to solve it comes second. first we need cheap reliable and idealy green source of energy - thorium fission and later fusion - 5 years once you have this you can build fully automated vertical farms - 1 or 2 years of developing tech for this. in the meantime we could find a way to produce meat in a lab- 2 years if we focus on this. with high amount of vegetables + meat we could revert to more helthier standarts of living - i like to point out japan where fast food have to compete with restaurants with healthy alternatives - rest of the world is lacking in this regard. we should drive prices of energy, food, and living to 0 and we can do that overtime.

"forget cutting carbs" like I don't eat pasta for every meal

Very informative

Better to talk about eating insects than eat talking insects.

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if you are here I really recommend checking out 'The Next Thing You Eat' from chef David Chang and documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville

I admit I don't think I will be eating insects.

Beans, lentils, veggies... 😎😁

I will not eat insects

We don't need to move beyond beef. We need to reduce beef consumption. If we switch cattle production from the stock yard to being ranched on the prairies, or steppes we can restore natural grassland carbon sinks. Beef on the table and carbon in the ground, is a win win situation.

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Nice video.

Serious question: How does eating meat contribute to the carbon-positive cycle? It's carbon that already exists in the current system. Fossil fuels I understand because it comes from underneath the ground, but I don't get how cows eating grass and farting contributes to climate issues because the carbon already exists.

Great video. Thank you for taking the time to shine light on this issue.

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Imagine eating lab grown “ beef “ while the rich and politicians enjoying real “ beef” at their expensive dinners.

For some population of the world right now, 'eating' itself is a great thing. Forget about sustainable tomorrow. There is enough production, supply chain is the problem.

If we hit the gas on vertical farms, GMO's, and cut back on meat production, or have a breakthrough in synthetic meat, than we could completely and cheaply offset whole food products in exchange for proof of servings making it to the end user- trivializing food costs at the store and keeping food service competitive. At the same time our surplus could feed other countries, and our supply chain would be much more resistant to fluctuations. I see a program like this being possible as early as 2030, with excess going to other countries as soon as our current grain shortage is over. Especially if we decrease meat subsidies as market pressures let up, keeping the new elevated price of meat.

In Ghana people eat meet a lot. It's not the poorest country in Africa at all! People are largely not educated about nutrition and climate effects of meat production. If anyone would like to develop such a program in Ghana - I am available to be employed. It's a new 'green business idea' for you here. :)

F that,still not eating bugs :-)

Producing carbohydrates for food consumption is the most damaging for humans. Using mostly diesel engine vehicles in farming to produce sugar and cereals is a double blow to us all. Carbohydrates is causing all sorts of damage to the body and accelerate the ageing process almost exponentially.

What about bison as a source of sustainable meat? With the right natural grass grown naturally, there is no farming required. It become as sustainable as wild-caught fish.

Lets 3d print food

EAT ZE BUGS

I'm from Japan and not an expert. I started to wonder if the government may put taxes on consumptions of beef. Actually, I did a quick research on this and found out that some countries such as Sweden, Denmark, or Germany are considering implementing "meat tax". I guess this could work and reduce the impact on the planet in some ways. However, there will be huge backlashes from agricultural industries.

Yeah, well-done(!) Focus on burgers rather than focusing on the elephant in the room which are energy(electric,coal,nuclear and petrol), fishing and mining sectors. Stop changing the focus from where it should be. The number of cattle hasn't changed in the last 20 years. That does not even make a dent compared to energy sectors negative effects.

Why is the black hair video turned off though!!!?? Every one of your videos comment section is turned on except that one !? Definitely not a coincidence

For something from The Economist, I found this oddly incomplete. "Regenerative agriculture and animal husbandry" was not mentioned. And did I hear anyone say "peanuts"? No. They should: a legume and "nut" at the same time, high protein and nutrient/energy dense, water sparing, self pollinating and nitrogen fixing. Easy to combine with other plant proteins for completeness. Readily accepted throughout the world. Already grown at scale worldwide with a global market. Peanuts along with other legumes are part of the solution.

The future of food also needs to address the 17%, or 900 million tonnes, of food that is simply thrown away. This is the elephant in the kitchen!

Permaculture. Understand ecology. We Can still have meat, just have to understand the process. Ecology Education would help with the transition. Biomimicry in design of all things. So many options when we become educated in becoming more efficient in our environment. We can do better. Be better together. 🙌🏼

I will be honest eating bugs doesn't taste that bad(most don't have taste) but the texture is horrendous making it hard to chew and swallow

im not eating freaking worms!

ha ha ha thinking about changing the eating habits..... the way it goes is killing everyone through cancer etc. I am 60years old, i have been a vegetarian for 45 years and trying to became vegan for the last 17years, I am health, spirutualy on peace and look very yong, i am the world citizen...... well travelled person.... I do respect all the lives that is where my energy comes from.

they should meet with Eric Berg and understand why organic is important...

Booking I won't eat the bugs

Lap meat fine, insects fuxking NO.

I’m a farmer and work in Ag and I don’t believe this arguments hold water. Fastest way to reduce carbon footprint on food is to reduce food waste not change the means of production

People keep on ignoring the impact that animal agriculture had on the environment. WHY CAN WE NOT STOP BEIGN SO SELFISH? Are we going to stop turning a blind eye to all the legal atrocities happening in the farming industry?

Let me guess: bugs?

If we eat insects then the no. Of pollinators for different plants will definitely got vanished that's why in my opinion it is totally wrong to eat them as also because they can have no of dangerous parasites also in their body that's why all organisms are interdependent to each other

How about we pay attention to solar and geological cycles and prepare for them?

NO WAY !

live in the pod eat the bugs live in the pod eat the bugs own nothing, be happy do as your told -Bond villain Klaus Schwab

You eat bugs.

Less protein and more carbo may be the answer.

Keep the grass hoppers and laboratory goo. I'll stick with beef and chicken.

Sorry with everything going up people simply won't be able to buy food if they are all to move sustainable source. I rather feed my family first before thinking sustainable.

Sounds like we just need less people.

This is baloney- they dismiss smaller-scale production and favor things like vertical farming, which is so energy intensive it's ridiculous. They cannot replace the energy in sunlight by using electrical bulbs, and the heat load is tremendous (the idea that alternative energy will compensate is silly). There is no discussion of the emergence of regenerative methods for both food production and meat production, which directly addresses climate issues. They are lost in a typical urban e-world.

If you don’t want lab grown/factory farmed, Support your local farmer

How about the rich just stop flying around in their private jets?

If there's already 2 billion people eating insects, why don't we let them and their offspring keep on eating bugs? It was said in the end that eating habits are actually cultural and emotional. If there's already a large part of the human population eating insects, just let them keep on eating what they see fit. I'm certainly not starting to eat any bugs.

"Live in your cubicle. Eat the engineered bugs. Do as you're told". Yeah, no.

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Just build Nuclear power plants instead.

The video nearly completely ignores the most likely meat analogue, plant-based meat substitutes. Plant-based meat substitutes are being sold commercially *now* at billion-dollar scale, and they can easily be scaled up to global scale, hundreds of billions of dollars, and sold for less cost than meat. I'd like to know the pros and cons of that trajectory.

Omega 3 is very much NOT only in fish. Makes me doubt that geezer knows his stuff.

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Basically anything but meat until they discover a problem with that to

These two talk about food alternatives and they likely eat meat regularly

How about less people?

Is it sustainable to have human population levels to continue growing forever? If it isn’t, do we need new economic systems that don’t rely on continuous human population growth?

I'll stick to beef. (You all can enjoy "gourmet insects".)

I like soy meat. But it is still expensive.

Regenerative Agriculture AKA low tech equals sustainable. Tech is the problem chemical farming and machine harvesting makes monocropping. Which is not sustainable.

We would use less fertilizer if we would grow the biblical way. Which is to allow your land to rest in the seventh year so that the animals can get a chance to ferti the land.

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We should scale back. It would be more beautiful for the world population to naturally reduce to a level, where we can rely on traditional farming instead of those perverted ways of food production presented here.

Solution is so simple and easy, stop making more kids. You are welcome world!

Reduce the gap between rich and poor, and avoid food waste. If all countries can perform this well, I think our food supply is sustainable enough.

If u did grow food or meat in lab that could also turn in to disaster too , if the food started to grow in labs the produser can create catagory like diet meat plane meat which cheap or pro meat or food which has all the nutritional value and u can't have that because u don't earn that much or afford to buy it , right now the nutritional value is same for every body

Before we start cutting back on meat, we need to get rid of all these worthless dogs and cats ...

Eat the bugs and live in your pods minions. Eat the lab-grown 'meat' too. I hope you enjoy your existence owning nothing in 10-15 years time, people.