The Fermentation Led Disruption of Citric Acid
What do the marmalade you put on your toast and the vitamin you perhaps take at the same time have in common? Both have an ingredient called citric acid, an ubiquitous, weak organic acid. Indeed, citric acid is the molecule that led to the technology which enabled the mass production …
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Sweet Saccharine: Could sweet protein disrupt sugar? - Sugar is one of the world’s most glorious ingredients. Deliciously… 
Precision Fermentation and the Disruption of the Palm Oil Industry - How do chocolate goodies keep their sheen and creamy texture,… 
The Roadmap to Disruption and Market Opportunities - There is a roadmap to the disruption of food. Here… 
Precision Regulation – Policy as a key shaper of the new food system - There is a major disruption coming to the food system,… Rethinking Humanity (latest book)
We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history.
The Disruption of Insulin – The First Product from Precision Fermentation
Today, we are on the cusp of multiple disruptions in food and materials. So why now? In a previous blog we discussed how precision fermentation (PF) has been around for 40 years. We know this because we can pinpoint the first product commercialized from PF – human insulin. Human insulin is an illustrative example of how PF created a superior product that led to a rapid disruption of an incumbent product.
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Take a Byte! Food-as-Software
Throughout history, technology has been the driving force behind major structural changes to the food system. The plough, fishing nets, irrigation, fermentation, canning, fertilizers, tractors and refrigeration, to name just a few, have enabled us to transition from hunter-gatherers to small-scale farmers to industrial food producers on a massive scale.
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Food – Part 2: The Rise of the New
In Part 1 we discussed why Covid-19 has impacted industrial livestock farming. Here we discuss the rise of the new protein industry in a post-Covid-19 world. Covid-19 is accelerating the collapse of the old system and the growth of a new one.
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