What do you think you will be eating in 10 years’ time? Whether you realise it or not, the nature of the food we eat is transient and highly susceptible to changing times. For example, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in 1961, Asians ate less than 10kg of meat per person per year. By 2021, that figure had surpassed 30kg per person annually.
In fact, recent data even shows that in countries like Korea, meat consumption has surpassed rice! The global population has also continued to swell, as has greenhouse gas emissions and this in turn poses a larger question: how to feed people in a world that is becoming ecologically very different from the one we used to inhabit a mere 20 years ago? In Singapore, creative data consultancy agency Synthesis recently released its 10-year forecast of what we will be eating in the future in a report called Menu 2034: The Future of Food. The report was put together with the aid of Synthesis’ 40 data scientists, engineers, futurists and creatives who looked at 100,000 simulations and 46 drivers of change to come up with possible scenarios for what food could look like in a decade. Fordham says people are typically slow to react which is why the resilient adaptation model is far more likely in 10 years and will see mankind eating food predominantly engineered by science and technology.
— SYNTHESIS The report’s focus is on two key critical certainties: rising greenhouse gas emissions and so.