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"The potential for alternative foods to displace and disrupt conventional
agricultural production has been discussed and debated for some time. While it
may still be too early to make firm predictions, the trends are clear.
In 2021, Catherine Tubb and Tony Seba predicted alternative foods were poised
to cause major disruption. They drew attention to the advantages of these new
technologies: quality and cost, lower carbon footprint, decentralised
production close to markets, and freeing up agricultural land for ecological
restoration and carbon sequestration.
This echoed a 2019 report from global consultancy firm Kearney, which concluded
“novel vegan meat replacements and cultured meat” have serious disruptive
potential.
The major threat comes not from vegan markets, which were recently reported to
be levelling out or even declining in the UK, but from substitution of
commodity products in manufactured foods. This has clear implications for
economies such as New Zealand’s."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
