The future of food: plant-based and ecotechno

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This chapter explores existential questions surrounding food, science, technology, and social evolution, examining the current and future landscape of food production and human diets. It traces paradigm shifts in nutrition, single nutrients and scientific reductionism to dietary patterns to nutritional ecology. It discusses food as a weapon and human right, questioning whether we need more in 2050. It highlights Fourth Agricultural Revolution (4AR) technologies (vertical farming, AI, robots, alternative proteins, plant-based meat, molecular coffee and chocolate, cultivated meat, air protein) and contrasts personalized with public health nutrition. It contemplates whether humans will continue toward environmental decimation and widespread antibiotic resistance (i.e., agshittification), urging a plant-based food revolution to cut chronic disease, curb climate change, and evolve beyond the Age of the Chicken, envisioning an ecotechno future without enslaving animals in factory farms based on science, technology, and human innovation that prioritizes public health to create a healthy, sustainable food future.