/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12766888
>Seems far out?

You've got a soft brain.

'Real meat' in the near future is most likely going to be extremely expensive unless you own land or have access to land: people who hunt or people with livestock will never be in short supply of meat, but people living in the city are going to have to settle for substitutes. Lab grown meat, vegetable-protein based meat, and seafood will be the norm: inexpensive, readily available, price-controlled, and supplied & advertised in every grocery store and fast food restaurant.

Seafood is going to still be on the menu because given the current trend we're seeing a lot of innovation and development of both aquaculture and hydroponics. We're finally investing and inventing newer, more efficient, techniques that allow farming fish to be far more cost effective than it was in the past- as well as raise and produce a wider variety of fish due to us understanding their life cycles better. Hydroponics has been especially important as it's allowed for the first time fish to be essentially grown and raised anywhere- and indoors for that matter.
Right now we're stuck on garbage-eating freshwater fish (shrimp, prawns, catfish, tilapia, carp), but a recent development in shellfish aquaculture (mussels specifically) has secured an inexpensive source of feed for tastier carnivorous fish like salmon which was previously not always 'cost effective' or even environmentally stable due to it's reliance on catching bait-fish for feed.

Personally I hate seafood, so this doesn't make me feel better at all.