Failure is Potential

In a recent podcast on Freakonomics Radio called "How the supermarket helped America" the discussion was on how the supermarket changed the playing field for consumption. I will base this info on that podcast. I found the podcast interesting not necessarily on the topics of Russia, the cold war or production outright, but I thought it is a case study for African countries and many of the bottle-necks found there. I found the following argumentation interesting: Due to an overproduction of wheat and corn, it caused the US government to having to stockpile them, after giving buying guarantees. Since production became ever more efficient due to science on the one hand, such as bigger broilers and mechanization, such as tractors, on the other. So farmers started giving excess production to cattle, pigs and chicken, where today 30% of corn and 50% of soy is used for animal feed. Even then, production steadily continued to increase and something new was needed to use the o...

So I was reading up on egg alternatives and found some cool stuff.

“Meat is basically protein, fat and water. Our game is to find all that in plants and reassemble it against the architecture of meat.” —Ethan Brown, CEO and co-founder of Beyond Meat 10 Global meat consumption is set to rise for the foreseeable future, up until at least 2050. the good food institute created a good overview of the current land, water, emissions and eutrophication: With current market options it doesn't just show a marginal improvement, but on a scale that is necessary to not just feed everyone, but still have a habitable planet. It does not mean I am a vegetarian or vegan, but I have tried some of the alternatives and they are vast improvements from standard tofu based alternatives, that don't even come close. I am waiting for the day that clean meat is available on the market! Until then! Source: https://www.gfi.org/files/pb-meat-sustainability.pdf