Tech to Table : 25 Innovators Reimagining Food by Richard Munson (2021, Hardcover)

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PublisherIsland Press
ISBN-101642831905
ISBN-139781642831900
eBay Product ID (ePID)6050408891

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Book TitleTech to Table : 25 Innovators Reimagining Food
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicAgriculture / General, Industries / Food Industry, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Chemistry / Industrial & Technical
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, Business & Economics
AuthorRichard Munson
FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
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LCCN2021-932940
ReviewsThis book provides hope to an industry and society replete with despair, giving positive perspectives on technological advancements and their potential for social improvement.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal664
Table Of ContentIntroduction. The Rise of Innovators Part 1. Deliver Proteins Chapter 1. Josh Tetrick, Eat Just--Rethinking the Chicken and the Egg Chapter 2. Uma Valeti, UPSIDE Foods--Avoiding Animal Slaughter Chapter 3. Patrick Brown, Impossible Foods--Making Burgers from Plants Chapter 4. James Corwell, Ocean Hugger Foods--Turning Tomatoes into Tuna Chapter 5. Virginia Emery, Beta Hatch--Farming Insects Chapter 6. Leonard Lerer, Back of the Yards Algae Sciences--Growing Algae and Mycelia Part 2. Reduce Food Waste Chapter 7. Irving Fain, Bowery Farming--Bringing Crops Closer to Consumers Chapter 8. James Rogers, Jenny Du, and Louis Perez, Apeel Sciences--Coating Foods Chapter 9. Bob Pitzer, Harvest CROO--Picking Strawberries Robotically Chapter 10. Raja Ramachandran, ripe.io--Tracking Food with Blockchain Chapter 11. Lynette Kucsma and Emilio Sepulveda, Foodini--Printing 3D Meals Chapter 12. Daphna Nissenbaum, TIPA--Cutting Plastic Packaging Part 3. Curtail Poisons Chapter 13. Sébastian Boyer and Thomas Palomares, FarmWise--Plucking Weeds Robotically Chapter 14. Jorge Heraud and Lee Redden, Blue River Technology--Spraying Precisely Chapter 15. Irina Borodina, BioPhero--Messing with Pest Sex Part 4. Nourish Plants Chapter 16. Diane Wu and Poornima Paramswaran, Trace Genomics--Mapping Soils Chapter 17. Eric Taipale, Sentera--Analyzing Fields from Above Chapter 18. Ron Hovsepian, Indigo Ag--Providing Probiotics to the Soil Chapter 19. Karsten Temme and Alvin Tamsir, Pivot Bio--Feeding Nitrogen to Crop Roots Chapter 20. Tony Alvarez, WaterBit--Watering Precisely Part 5. Cut Carbon Chapter 21. Rachel Haurwitz, Caribou Biosciences--Editing Genes Chapter 22. Lee DeHaan, The Land Institute--Planting Perennials Chapter 23. Joshua Goldman, Australis Aquaculture--Blocking Burps Chapter 24. Julia Collins, Planet FWD--Creating a Climate-Friendly Food Platform Chapter 25. Stafford Sheehan and Gregory Constantine, Air Company--Cutting Carbon with Vodka Conclusion. Disrupting Farms and Foods Acknowledgments Notes About the Author Index
SynopsisImagine eating a burger grown in a laboratory, a strawberry picked by a robot, or a pastry created with a 3-D printer. You would never taste the difference, but these technologies might just save your health and the planet's. Today, landmark advances in computing, engineering, and medicine are driving solutions to the biggest problems created by industrialized food. Tech to Table introduces readers to twenty-five of the most creative entrepreneurs advancing these solutions. They come from various places and professions, identities and backgrounds. But they share an outsider's perspective and an idealistic, sometimes aggressive, ambition to rethink the food system. Reinvention is desperately needed. Under Big Ag, pollution, climate change, animal cruelty, hunger, and obesity have festered, and despite decades of effort, organic farming accounts for less than one percent of US croplands. Entrepreneurs represent a new path, one where disruptive technology helps people and the environment. These innovations include supplements to lower the methane in cattle belches, drones that monitor irrigation levels in crops, urban warehouses that grow produce year-round, and more. The pace and breadth of change is astonishing, as investors pump billions of dollars into ag-innovation. Startups are attracting capital and building markets, with the potential to upend conventional agribusiness's stranglehold on the food system. Not every invention will prosper long-term, but each marks a fundamental change in our approach to feeding a growing population--sustainably. A revolution in how we grow and eat food is brewing. Munson's deftly crafted profiles offer a fascinating preview of the coming future of food., Imagine eating a burger grown in a laboratory, a strawberry picked by a robot, or a pastry created with a 3-D printer. You would never taste the difference, but these technologies might just save your health and the planet's. Today, landmark advances in computing, engineering, and medicine are driving solutions to the biggest problems created by ......
LC Classification NumberTP370.2

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