I think the most important thing about my meal from the future is the farm where the ingredients come from. What I mean is, how the produce or the meat was raised, what kind of farm did it come from? Is that farm contributing to world pollution or is it helping to solve it?
In business we study many many disciplines, from a great deal of math, to sociology, psychology, strategy, even anthropology. Business is truly a multi-disciplinary study, and I feel the same way about Agriculture, or farming. Smart farming should borrow from biology, chemistry, zoology, botany, engineering, and ecology in the same way that business borrows from other disciplines.
Believe it or not, but many farms, especially farms that raise meat, can be very damaging to the environment. Many farms plant crops that shouldn't grow in that area, or they can produce, literally, tons of waste and pollution. Many farms end up damaging the very ecology that they are dependent on to operate. I think that the farms of the future should work and enhance the ecology; farms are after all, a center of life.
in Dan Barber's
TED speech, which I recommend you all watch, he told the tale of a farm that worked so well with the surrounding ecology that it actually revived parts of the environment that were severely damaged. This was only possible when people started to apply those very academic subjects to farming. When we take thousands of years of acc**ulated knowledge and study and apply it to the dirt, then we produce food which is healthier, tastier, and in my opinion, happier.
I hope that in the future people stop looking at farming as a mundane area of work which is only reliant on back-breaking work, and start thinking of them as they way in which we can solve many many social problems.
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