"Imagine microbial strains precisely engineered to yield high quality protein...We are on the brink of producing tailored, sustainable food sources." 🚀 Key suggestions in new Australian white paper to kickstart a Precision Fermentation economy: https://hubs.li/Q02Z0fJ10 📍 "The Food and Beverage Accelerator (FaBA) based at The University of Queensland has released the report "Precision Fermentation: A Future of Food in Australia." "Professor Esteban Marcellin from FaBA said precision fermentation was a transformative opportunity to: 🚀 strengthen food systems 🚀 foster economic growth 🚀 enhance environmental sustainability, and 🚀 boost food security." In 2019 we published the seminal Rethinking Food and Agriculture, where we coined the term “Precision Fermentation” and made the business and social case for PF as the biggest disruptive force in the food industry. 🧠 Want to become an expert on this disruption? Read & Share this page: https://hubs.li/Q02Z0fMK0 🔍 Uncover Precision Fermentation in depth: https://hubs.li/Q02Z0f3M0
I love it when so-called scientists who have no understanding of the dynamics of the food industry come up with a way to "boost food security". I'd have to write a 'Food Industry for Dummies' book to explain why it won't, so pecking away on a text for LI won't do it. Jim Plamondon has indicated one reason. But take my word for it, I've forty years in this business: it won't and it'll go the way of other "bright" ideas hatched in a lab.
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6dOf all of RethinX's predictions, this one is the least credible, IMHO. PF has had a few notable successes, but also many expensive failures. The complexity of life contrasts with the complicated-ness of other technologies. It is not yet clear that Wright's Law applies broadly to synthbio. Transistors don't evolve under selection pressure. Living organisms do. That makes synthbio inherently less predictable and scalable. Prove this argument false, guys.