With the world burgeoning to a massive 7.64 billion population at time of writing, we are facing a massive problem with food management and security. It is simply a matter of mathematics: to support a large apex population, there needs to be a larger population of food sources to support us. A top heavy pyramid will ultimately be unsustainable, and a cataclysmic disruption is inevitable unless we find ways to negate it.
A constant food source will be one of the struggles that we will face in the near future with global warming and rising water levels causing changes to the weather that our food supply chain is reliant upon annually for a proper harvest. Also, depletion of natural food sources (not from a farming chain supply like hunting and gathering) will only increase the need to find alternatives that our science will have to solve.
Current food resources are heavily dependent on both Earth’s natural resources like land, water, fossil fuel, oxygen and Man-made resources like machinery, fertilisers, transportation/logistics, packing and warehousing etc, which makes the whole chain of food production ecosystem stretch thinner with our constant need for more.
For every new person on earth, we have to add more resources down the chain to provide for that person’s lifetime which is rather long and requires a large energy requirement produce the food needed to feed us, an energy that is currently putting a lot of chemicals and carbon dioxide gases into the air.
Add to that, food waste is a taboo subject that we need to start tackling, food packaging adds to strains to the waste product industry and
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