3/28/2023 0 Comments The face of mars book![]() ![]() On the flip side, if she were given the chance to set up food programs on Mars, Newman would happily board a spaceship. “Earth is too good,” says Fraser, laughing. While he hopes that humans make the seven-month trip to Mars, he wouldn’t want to go. Because it’s really the only one we’re ever going to have.” ![]() “Perhaps by thinking about living on another planet, we’ll develop the tools to save the one that we actually depend on. “It won’t be 100 per cent, but there will be a whole lot of stuff we currently think of as coming from an animal today.” And there will be a transition away from traditional livestock towards those,” says Fraser. “Those will - gradually, at first, and then I think with increasing speed - start appearing on our grocery store shelves. Products such as chicken nuggets, frozen beef burritos, ice cream and industrial cheese will become less dependent on animals and more dependent on microbes for their ingredients. He predicts that though cellular agriculture won’t completely overtake its animal-based counterpart, it will help define how we feed ourselves in the future. In the next 10 years, Fraser expects “remarkable advances” in precision fermentation. CONCEPT DRAWING BY ABIBOO Studio, /projects/nuwa “Martians will worry about radiation a lot.” Architectural firm ABIBOO Studio chose the steep terrain for its vertical Martian city of Nüwa for just this reason. The cliffside in the Tempe Mensa region “could provide shelter from the harmful radiation that bombards the surface of Mars,” Lenore Newman and Evan Fraser write in Dinner on Mars. On the other, managing the way they unfold will be a challenge - for sustainability and animal welfare, as well as for the people whose livelihoods could be upended. On the one hand, these technologies are disrupting systems that might have problems associated with them, he explains. Of all the technologies they investigated for Dinner on Mars, cellular agriculture and vertical farming have the potential to be “truly disruptive,” says Fraser, both in the positive and negative sense of the word. In Dinner on Mars, food scientists Lenore Newman and Evan Fraser investigate the technologies - and mindset - needed to feed a Martian community. Newman and Fraser’s thought experiment of what people would eat in their imaginary Martian settlement of BaseTown also serves as a lesson in how we might improve food systems here on Earth. In Dinner on Mars, Fraser and co-author Lenore Newman - Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment at the University of the Fraser Valley - delved into the agricultural technologies that will make feeding the red planet possible. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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