What is the use of technology to change the entrepreneurial opportunities in the food industry?

In fact, in addition to the 1 billion of people who don't have enough to eat, there are 3 billion people in the world who are facing poor food quality, and they are battling malnutrition and other diseases because they are chronically short of quality food.

The technology industry is now working with the government to address food quality problems. Modern people, even people from rich areas, use a lot of junk food. These unhealthy foods cause people to suffer from heart disease, type II diabetes and other diseases.

Technology companies can actually solve this problem. First, we can use technical means to increase the utilization of food raw materials, reduce waste, so that more people can fill the belly. Secondly, we can also improve the quality of food. Here are some of these businesses:

Development of substitute meat products

Khosla Ventures has invested in a number of enterprises producing substitute meat products. With the improvement of people's living standards, our demand for meat is getting higher. But the planet we live in has been unable to take on the meat we need. You know, about 15% of the greenhouse gases on earth come from farms, and these greenhouse gases accelerate the pace of global warming. In addition, a large amount of freshwater resources are needed to breed livestock.

Investor Peter Thiel also invested in a production company named Xiandai Meadow. The company has bred "bio-meat" in the laboratory, and the production of this artificial meat will have no impact on the environment.

Xiandai Meadow: Animal husbandry no longer depends on farm "2013 American Creative Company 100"

Reduce food waste

A business called leftover swap allows neighbors to share excess food. If you have leftover food in your home, you can upload information about the food and wait for others to claim it.

Foodstar has created a new technology that, when food is about to expire, alerts users to ensure that they are consumed during the shelf life. It avoids people forgetting the ingredients in their refrigerators until they expire, but they have to throw them in the trash.

Let people know about the whole process of food production

To get people to really understand food, let them understand the process of food production and the relationship between food production and the earth we live in.

Grow Appalachia is a software that teaches people from less developed areas how to grow vegetables and other ingredients in their backyard. In addition to being able to use these vegetables themselves, these users can sell these vegetables to the local market for agricultural products. In this way, not only to understand the vegetable planting process, more understanding of the transport process of vegetables.

Changing food may take a long time, but it's an important job. Because this work solves one of the most basic questions about people: what to eat today.