All Tomorrow’s Kitchens

Bee-Free Honey, a CRISPR Seed Bank, and Super Daddies

A weekly roundup of everything bringing humans closer to a food-secure future

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All Tomorrow’s Kitchens, a weekly series from Future Human, rounds up advances in food and agricultural science, tech, business, and culture bringing all humans closer to a food-secure future. Read last week’s story here.

Honey without the bees. A California startup called Melibio is attempting to overhaul honey production by producing it through an entirely biosynthetic process. Doing so, as the company’s founder explains in Food Dive, can ensure a more consistent honey supply. Synthetic honey wouldn’t be weather-dependent, and it’d be easier to avoid the adulterants that bees tend to pick up in the wild. It could also prove more humane than traditional honey production since it doesn’t require using smoke to calm bees or clipping the queen’s wings. Whether the natural-food-loving public will opt for synthetic honey is another question, but if the global bee population continues its precipitous decline, eventually, we may not have a choice.

Alaska’s salmon farmers fight to save Tongass forest. The biggest forest in the United States is Tongass National Forest, a pristine, 17-million-acre expanse sprawling…