eaten something during the last 24 hours
well I can see it on your face you’re
thinking well of course meow you saw me
at the canteen and 24 hours is a pretty
long time so obviously yeah obviously
well did you know that more than one out
of ten people in the world are starving
right now and according to the FAO or
1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away
each year
it’s represent 14 million square
kilometer of field that goes to trash
it’s bigger than the area of Europe so
yes our food system is not efficient yes
our population is increasing and no our
planet is not extensible today I’m here
to talk about the future of our food and
I will be presenting you five types of
innovation that we might see in a close
future some of them already exist as
well and they are here to transform our
food system to make it more efficient or
to fit the needs of the future
population and I hope that you’re not
eating anything right now because you
might want to put your snacks away
during this presentation ready let’s get
into it
have you ever watched matrix the movie
yeah do you remember that moments when
neo wakes up and he realized that
actually every human is kept alive
through a lot of tubes that go all over
their bodies
this scene remember okay this might have
inspired an engineer and he did the same
thing but for chickens
so it would be matrix for four chickens
and it will look like this it’s a
vertical chicken forms and what’s
happening there is that each chickens
would have their cerebral cortex remove
so they wouldn’t feel any stress any
feeling or any pain it would pretty much
become cultivated vegetables but made
out of meat
you can see a lot of tubes that go all
over here and these would take care of
the air the food the excrement of those
birds and they would still be able to
grow because their brainstem will be
kept and this would be done through
electrical stimulation controlled by
computers so this has a lot of
advantages for example the yield
production is extremely high and these
birds wouldn’t have wouldn’t be stressed
out due to car crowded area just like
we’re seeing in our food system current
food system however this still raises a
lot of problem ethically are we allowed
to play with those birds live in this
way we don’t know we’re things still
thinking about it but who knows maybe in
a close future right but this could help
us with our increasing meat consumption
and as you may or may not know our
livestock nowadays produce 16 percent of
our carbon emission so this would also
reduce our carbon footprint so a lot of
advantages right however it’s not the
first time that human tried to literally
grow meat just like we would grow plants
this leads us to our second innovation
the in vitro steaks you might have heard
of this one it’s pretty recent the first
one was done in 2013 what is it it’s a
little piece of meat that have been
produced in a laboratory and it took six
weeks to produce this one and it’s only
cows muscle cells that have been
replicated over and over and yeah and
guess how much it costs to just produce
one a thousand ten thousand a hundred
thousand yeah ten thousand it’s actually
cost three hundred twenty-five thousand
US dollar and this was done in 2013 now
gets not how much it costs right now
1,100 it’s actually closed only twelve
dollars and this shows how much our
technology can improve over time right
according to the food expert the taste
is actually not the same as the one we
have right now but the texture is really
realistic and again it has a lot of
advantages well first it’s really
economic you don’t have to feed the cows
you don’t have to give them water and
the animal would not suffer so maybe
even vegetarians might accept to eat
those types of meat and again it would
help us with our increasing carbon
footprint let’s leave the meat for a
second ok let’s speak about something
else let’s speak about movie because I
like movies have you watched this movie
Solent Green it’s a pretty old one 1973
some of you ok yeah some of you have to
watch this ok so it’s really interesting
because it speaks about the future in
2022 and how our population would
replace our normal meal by some little
pills that would be called Soylent Green
and those little pills would completely
replace all our nutritious needs so this
might have inspired an engineer who did
a little bit the same thing but with a
Potter called Soylent so this powder
would just be mixed with some water and
it would contain the perfect balance of
minerals vitamins and proteins and this
engineer tried it on himself for one
month so one month every day three times
a day
Soylent well first day he survived which
is pretty cool second thing he said that
he never felt as good as before so I
made some research there because I
thought it’s a little bit weird why are
we still eating food if we have silence
it’s the solution of all our problem
and the reason is pretty simple a lot of
people have tried it and they gave up
after one or two weeks why because they
were becoming depressed or moody or
aggressive towards other people
according to food expert the art brain
really needs to choose something and to
spend a minimum of 20 minutes for each
meals to feel completely satisfied so
sadly this type of food might not
develop a lot in the future however it
could act as a life saver for example
after natural disaster because it’s
really easy to transport and it’s really
affordable and you just mix it with
water and you just get Soylent pretty
easy right okay I’ll make you guess my
first product to billion people on earth
already eat them so it’s not an
innovation we’ve been doing it since a
long time and as we as we living in
Southeast Asia you might have already
vegetables it’s sex yay yay yummy right
okay I’ll just because they look at big
girls I’ll just cover them with the
pictures of my last trip in Cambodia and
you can see us trying fried tarantula
and you can see how pleased I look among
the right-hand side corner it’s not that
good but the grasshoppers actually
tastes pretty good should try them so do
the insect that we eat the most in the
world are beetles grasshoppers and
caterpillars okay and however the ritual
culture they don’t really want to try
them because they look a little bit
gross and we’re not really attracted by
their appearance
however they’re slowly being introduced
for example in my home country in
Switzerland we have our first burgers
made out of mealworms these are mere
ones that have been sold this year in
August and you can find them everywhere
it’s really easy to buy them so yeah
they’re slowly being introduced and
again they have a huge amount of
advantages for example did you know that
they have the same nutritional value
than the meat when it comes to proteins
and they’re the insect are really easy
to grow if you take ten kilograms of
cereal you’d be able to produce one
kilograms of meat but with the same 10
kilograms of cereal you’d produce 9
kilograms of grasshoppers so really easy
to grow and the yield production is
completely different
so a lot of advantages and now let’s
speak about the last innovation I’m
gonna present you and for me it’s the
most interesting one why because we
might see them in a really close future
and because some people are already
using them if I tell you 3d printers
what do you think about plastics are
there any other materials yeah well did
you know that we have some 3d printers
that produce food Wow yeah the first one
who were interested by this was the NASA
why because they wanted their astronauts
to eat something their friend from food
space spacesuit in the in in space so
they financed an engineer and well he
tried it and guess what was his first
product his first meal that he produced
corn no nice try it was pizza and it
actually makes sense right you build it
layer by
lair and it worked so now at the NASA is
using them here in space but it’s even
becoming a trend for example in some
restaurants around the world they’re
producing some food that only that I
only produce it by 3d printers I’ve done
some research we might have one soon in
Singapore it’s not sure yet but we might
but you know what this engineer doesn’t
want to stop there he has bigger dreams
and what he wants to do is to nourish
the ten billion people that might be on
this planet by the end of 2001 so 2100
it sounds pretty far from us doesn’t it
a lot of us might not be here anymore
and until then we’ll face a lot of
challenges when it comes to the way we
produce the way we manage or the way we
consume more food just like we’ve had a
lot of challenges in the past decades so
tonight when you go back home and maybe
you’re gonna be with your family maybe
with a friend maybe by yourself and when
you’re gonna go and eat your dinner I
want you to think to imagine what will
your meal look like in ten years
thank you very much [Applause]