What's for dinner in 2035?
Alex Renton imagines what two families – one rich, the other hard-up – might be eating in the futurePredicting what we will eat in Britain in 2035 comes down to how gloomy you are about the future. Will stagnant growth have pushed us down the list of rich nations so far that we can't import any foods any more? Or will new energy sources and acceptance of food bio-tech mean that 3-D food printers will be pumping out nutritionally enriched burgers and sushi in all our homes? Will climate change mean land in Britain has to be devoted to crops, not meat, to keep 70 million of us fed? The hard-up familyWe're growing as much food as we can in the back garden. Food costs are using nearly half the family income, compared with just 12% for our grandparents, so we throw away very little indeed.Brown bread The Food Ministry has decreed that refining flour wastes too many vitamins and minerals and has banned white bread (as Britain did in the Second World War). Wheat flour prices rocketed with the collapse of arable farming in India, southern Russia and the US, so Britain no longer imports any.Lab meatDad won't eat "Frankensteaks" – he'd rather have a farmed locust fry-up – but the rest of the family eat "algae-farmed" bio-reactor-grown meats (we don't like the stuff made from proteins recovered from sewage).PotatoesIt's spuds every day of the week: even the pasta's made from potato flour. Potatoes are the staple carbohydrate, though experts worry about our dependence on thi...
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