All Tomorrow’s Kitchens
All Tomorrow’s Kitchens: Meat in Space and Other Advances That Shaped the Future of Food This Week
A weekly roundup of everything bringing humans closer to a food-secure future
Here at Future Human, we think a lot about food. As the climate changes and the global population soars, we ask: What are we going to eat? How are we going to get it, and will we have enough? All Tomorrow’s Kitchens, a new weekly series, will round up advances in food and agricultural science, tech, business, and culture that address the food-related issues that scientists anticipate, hopefully bringing all humans closer to a food-secure future.
Meat in space. An Israeli startup called Aleph Farms announced plans to grow meat in space, an effort meant to prove that meat can be produced in any environment, regardless of climate or access to resources. The company specializes in what’s known as lab-grown, or “cultured meat” — real animal cells grown on plant-based scaffolds that develop into hunks of meat. Last year, it successfully grew meat on the International Space Station, which was proof of concept for its new project. Cultured meat has been proposed as one solution to the environmental problems that beef cattle raise, although the environmental impact of…
