{"id":26878,"date":"2023-02-27T05:49:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T13:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=26878"},"modified":"2023-04-04T05:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:03:46","slug":"three-cultural-trends-about-the-future-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/27\/three-cultural-trends-about-the-future-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Cultural Trends about the Future of Food, Interview with Melissa Clark-Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/How-To-Write-the-Future-Episode-34.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26879 size-medium\" title=\"How To Write the Future - episode 34 cultural trends around food\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/How-To-Write-the-Future-Episode-34-300x300.png\" alt=\"How To Write the Future podcast - episode 34\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/How-To-Write-the-Future-Episode-34.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/How-To-Write-the-Future-Episode-34-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere&#8217;s all these different ways that we can look into the future and if you want to speak to some of the major things that you see coming that we might all go, oh yeah, totally understand. And then some surprising things. If there&#8217;s like a top three list or a top five list, maybe a global scale, but of course root it in what you know for your region.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cThree Cultural Trends about the Future of Food, Interview with Melissa Clark-Reynolds,\u201d host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and science fiction and fantasy novelist, chats with Melissa in this final episode of a mini-series where they discuss the cultural trends surrounding food and what food industries may look like in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms the podcast is available on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/34-three-cultural-trends-about-the-future-of\/id1641025914?i=1000601783303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apple Podcasts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> | <\/span><a 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allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Now on YouTube!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>How To Write the Future<\/strong>\u00a0is now on Youtube, for the full playlist go here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLFt3x70-_d9Kywxz7uK1dvLmyKjJDi99C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLFt3x70-_d9Kywxz7uK1dvLmyKjJDi99C<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RESOURCES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part 1: Ep. 31: \u201cTips for Writing Into The Future: Interview with Foresight Practitioner, Melissa Clark\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/06\/tips-for-writing-into-the-future-interview-with-foresight-practitioner-melissa-clark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/06\/tips-for-writing-into-the-future-interview-with-foresight-practitioner-melissa-clark\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part 2: Ep. 33: Your Orientation toward Time and Why I Write Science Fiction, Conversation with Melissa Clark-Reynolds: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/22\/your-orientation-toward-time-and-why-i-write-science-fiction-conversation-with-melissa-clark-reynolds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/22\/your-orientation-toward-time-and-why-i-write-science-fiction-conversation-with-melissa-clark-reynolds\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SHOW NOTES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>About Mellissa Clark-Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Clark-Reynolds ONZM, ChMInstD became a Foresight Practitioner and Professional Director after 30 years experience as a technology entrepreneur and CEO of a number of Technology companies. She trained as a Foresight Practitioner with The Institute for the Future in Palo Alto and also with Clayton Christiansen in his approach to Disruptive Innovation through Harvard. She has also trained with Futurist Sohail Inayutollah in his approach to corporate narrative and content level analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa works with companies like AsureQuality, Kotahi, Lincoln University, the NZ Screen Sector, and BiosecurityNZ on Strategy and Foresight. Melissa has a particular interest in Platform and Subscription Business Models. She developed and teaches courses in Strategy, Digital Governance and Disruptive Business Models for the NZ Institute of Directors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurecentre.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/futurecentre.nz\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoneyBeeGeek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoneyBeeGeek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/melissaclarkr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/melissaclarkr\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>ABOUT THE HOW TO WRITE THE FUTURE PODCAST<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The How To Write The Future podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tips for fiction writers!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do figure what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you looking for a way to dig into your world, building for your story? Then I recommend that you check out my World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers. Now available. It&#8217;s at How To Write The Future.com. Just head on over there. Click, sign up. Put your name and email, and there you go. That workbook will be delivered to your inbox straightaway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, Beth. Barany here with How To Write The Future podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What is How To Write The Future podcast<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is a podcast that offers tips and support for science fiction and fantasy writers, and actually writers of all kinds who want to create positive, optimistic futures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I believe when we vision what is possible and we put that into our fiction, we actually help make it happen in the world because our readers read them, feel it, and it can change their outlook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when your outlook changes, you can change how you operate in the world, how you behave, and how you think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am a science fiction and fantasy author and writing coach and consultant. I work with individuals and organizations to help bring stories to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Intro for this podcast<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200bIn previous episodes of How To Write The Future, I mostly shared my thoughts on various topics helping fiction writers to build their worlds and edit and market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now going forward, I am doing interview episodes where I will be talking to futurists, foresight practitioners, subject matter experts, and other people who can help us as fiction writers build better stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today is part three of my interview conversation with Melissa Clark-Reynolds. Melissa works as a futurist foresight practitioner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She&#8217;s particularly interested in the future of food, and that is what this part three is about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa and I met at a Futures course in the UK last summer offered by the School of International Futures. She currently lives in New Zealand. She has a very impressive CV that you can read in the show notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enjoy the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s all these different ways that we can look into the future and if you wanna speak to some of the major things that you see coming that we might all go, oh yeah, totally understand. And then some surprising things. If there&#8217;s like a top three list or a top five list, maybe a global scale, but of course root it in what you know for your region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s a lot I&#8217;ve been thinking about about the future of food and I feel like we&#8217;ve got a bit fixated on technology and obviously I have a background in technology, so it&#8217;s easy to fall in love with the tech.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Big Cultural Trends Around Food<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I&#8217;d like to think about just a couple of the big cultural trends that we&#8217;re seeing around food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So one of them is how we might think about killing things for food in the future. And so I&#8217;m really curious about what I see as emergent discussions around animals and ethics. There&#8217;s been some really interesting documentaries, so if we think about My Octopus Teacher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it&#8217;s an interesting one because there&#8217;s obviously been lots of vegan documentaries about conspiracy and others to try and use shock tactics to put people off eating sentient animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Octopus is interesting to me because it&#8217;s really driven some legislation in the UK now that, octopus is defined as a sentient being that there&#8217;s been a whole lot of research on them. We know they change color when they dream. We know that they can open jars and problem solve and they&#8217;re really a fascinating thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why I&#8217;m so fixated here on this octopus one is that I think it&#8217;s been a shift from how we see animals and sentients and emotion is occurring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So one of the big changes that I think is going to happen around food is how we feel about eating animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now it may be that people go great, they&#8217;re still delicious and I&#8217;m just gonna eat that one anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I can see at the moment that there is more of a movement around sentience and emotion around what is it for a cow to have her calf taken off her so that milk can be produced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is it to take the life of another living being to eat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so one of the big trends that I think we&#8217;re going to see Is a rise again of this flexitarianism of the reduction of eating meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And for me, meat includes any dead animal. Right?\u00a0 So whether it&#8217;s fish or, or birds or, or any of that, I, I still think that&#8217;s meat in my world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So one of the big trends\u00a0 I think we&#8217;re going to see is a reduction in meat consumption, not necessarily across the board completely but large groups of people, and I think we&#8217;re gonna see an emotional change around it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we look back at smoking and go, oh, how disgusting. That we might look back at meat eating and go, oh, how disgusting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having said that, I think that there is a chunk of the population that we&#8217;ll see meat as a treat and that the farmers who grow high quality meat for food will be under pressure to do the highest possible animal welfare production of meat, even though there&#8217;s this contradiction that the animal had a great life and then it was killed. That contradiction for some people will be just fine. But it&#8217;ll be a high value, very expensive, just as we may have seen with Wagu or other high quality, high expensive pieces of meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I can see that that contradiction of them both occurring at once, where we see an ick factor around meat for some people at the same time as we see a pleasure expense luxury factor around meat for others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right, right. Yeah. And then thirdly, the rise of lab grown meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then lab grown meat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so the whole cellular agriculture, I&#8217;m really very interested in. What this of course requires is possibly the land that is being used now internationally to grow crops, to feed animals instead to sell, grow crops, to feed cellular agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, milk production for me, I&#8217;m particularly interested in. I feel like we grow crops to feed to a cow to turn into milk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I really wonder why we will continue to use the cow. I think we&#8217;ll take the cow out. We&#8217;ll grow crops to make milk in the lab, well, in a factory. And that will be a completely vegan product.\u00a0 At the moment, some of that cellular agriculture requires animal cells in order to make something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increasingly there&#8217;s hundreds of millions of dollars of research that&#8217;s gone into creating vegan sources of those cells. So I think we&#8217;ll see alternate milks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a different way. But if I was putting my money into that, I&#8217;d be going into the ingredients business. So I think that the things that will be disrupted first are things like whey and casein and cheese production, those sorts of things. Not necessarily white milk itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s a really interesting report that came out a few years ago from an organization called Rethink X, where the growth of those ingredients made in a lab will make white milk production out of a cow uneconomic. What I think is that you see this massive reduction in the cow population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it being a market for people who want raw, organic region created high quality expensive milk from a cow, but it&#8217;s a treat product. It&#8217;s, again, it&#8217;s not a daily life product, but all of the things like ice cream and cream, cheese and cheese and sour cream, and so on, I just can&#8217;t understand how they will continue to be made in a cow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wow. So a complete replacement for milk and the other things that comes from milk. Just like,\u00a0 we can go to here in the US to even a fast food restaurant like Burger King and get the vegan meat replacement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That my husband likes because he normally eats kosher, but when we go out, he wants his burger in, he can now can have it with cheese because he can have that meat replacement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you think about keeping kosher or think about eating Halal, those things become much easier in a factory kind of agriculture which is interesting. And we do see the growth of Halal food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that&#8217;s one of the largest growing categories that we should be expecting globally because.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as we start to see population dynamics change, the rise of Africa is after the rise of Asia, but we also see it in the United States is that there are growing, Islamic communities and people who will eat halal food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so I think in the past we&#8217;ve underserved some of those communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now in New Zealand, we&#8217;re a lamb producer. It&#8217;s only 3% of the meat category in the us, but there is a disproportionate amount of people who do eat Halal, who eat lamb because culturally lamb is very popular in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there have been New Zealand companies who&#8217;ve, who&#8217;ve produced all of their production as a Halal killed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I think these specialty areas in a sense, like the growth of halal food, , will, will also have an influence on the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah. What else would I say?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Urban Agriculture\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think that urban agriculture is also up for a big change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what I mean by this is indoor, plant production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we see it in US companies like Plenty who have done a partnership with Walmart rolling out these big indoor agriculture plants across the US as a result. And, the early sort of vertical farms, a number of them went broke. But what&#8217;s really working is this integration with supermarkets or integration with the restaurant trade and growing to order for what people want. Often on a subscription, prepaid basis. So they&#8217;ve worked out a business model. And then the other thing that&#8217;s made this urban agriculture really work is just the low price of solar power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if I can put myself into a low rent area on the edges of San Francisco in an old bit of warehouse space with a nice nine meter stud, I can put solar on the roof. I&#8217;ve got cheap power, I&#8217;ve got cheap rent, and I can cut to order and bicycle it around to a local restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The business model works, and I think we&#8217;re gonna see an increase, particularly as people can work from home more and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then office space is going to be moved over to food production. And we&#8217;re already seeing that broadly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Really?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So those are my big picks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, I love it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The attitude to milk. Big changes in the way we produce and consume dairy and quite a lot of change in the way that we, we produce\u00a0 vegetables, but particularly lettuce and berries. They&#8217;re the first ones that we&#8217;re seeing disrupted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By urban agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what you call cellular agriculture, I hadn&#8217;t heard that terminology before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it&#8217;s this idea of precision fermentation, cellular agriculture, like making milk in a vat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of making it in a cow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then segueing that to space travel. I&#8217;m thinking about, what would be the core product they would need to put into a 3D printer so they can create whatever they wanted, base nutritious powder. I know that there&#8217;s some high-end chefs who are working on that level, but imagine we could have that on our spaceships and our space stations and so that&#8217;s where I go with it,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Especially if we mine the waste we produce, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if we can get past some of that ick factor. We take our wastes. We mine out the carbohydrate from those and we put that carbohydrate back into a cellular agriculture system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, it seems crazy, but you basically make protein from carbohydrate in those systems. So you need carbohydrate as the base stock, so<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether it&#8217;s cane sugar, or something else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re putting those high carbohydrate plant starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Into a kind of soupy mix of yeasts and microbes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And out of that mix, they create protein. This is how it works, so being able to take that into space makes sense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mm-hmm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You know, and reusing everything we have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other one I&#8217;ve thought about a bit in space is reusing the carbon dioxide that we breathe out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, you know, so there are some opportunities there to take that carbon dioxide and use that in food production as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, at the moment we&#8217;re seeing a global shortage of carbon dioxide for things like beer production and so on. Cause carbon dioxide at commercial scale is largely a byproduct of the gas industry, natural gas, and so on. So craft beer is in deep trouble this year because of the conflict in Ukraine and the reduction in gas production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, dry ice is really hard to get at the moment globally. And again, it&#8217;s a byproduct of the fossil fuel industry. And so I&#8217;m curious about how we might solve some of those issues.\u00a0 Perhaps coming outta the current crisis but that help us to think about what else we might do with our waste gases from human space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That feels like a really revolutionary kind of perspective and would take folks, a lot of, you know, the majority of human population might have a hard time with that, or maybe a lot of westerners might have more of a hard time with that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you know, a lot of other cultures are used to collecting excrement and putting it on their gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s so, so much fun, Melissa, to talk with you. I can&#8217;t wait till we do it again. And just for our listeners, where can they find you? If they wanna connect with you? If they wanna learn more about what you do, what, what&#8217;s the place for them to connect?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Melissa Clark-Reynolds<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Right. Well, despite what&#8217;s happened to Twitter, I&#8217;m still on Twitter, so My handle is honeybee geek on Twitter. Melissa means honey bee and I do keep bees. So, and I&#8217;m pretty geeky, so honeybee geek on Twitter, you can find me, Melissa Clark Reynolds on LinkedIn. I&#8217;m not so active there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I have a website, Future Center.nz. So, message me. I do put out a regular newsletter on Signals for one of the government departments in New Zealand, and it&#8217;s free and you can sign up. And I have just started doing six monthly webinars of\u00a0 what I think my top 10 signals from the future are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so if you keep an eye on my Twitter feed, you can sign up for those and they&#8217;re free.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Beth Barany<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, all of that sounds so wonderful. I wanna be sure to be signed up for all your things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks everyone for listening. And, until next time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>You&#8217;re Awesome &#8211; Thank you!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you so much, everyone, for listening to my podcast. Your interest and feedback is so inspiring to me and helps me know that I&#8217;m helping you in some small way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Are you stuck and overwhelmed by world building? Then&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you stuck and overwhelmed by world building? Then check out my new World-building Workbook for Fiction Writers. Head over to HowToWriteTheFuture.com and sign up for yours today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Barany teaches science fiction and fantasy novelists how to write, edit, and publish their books as a coach, teacher, consultant, and developmental editor. 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