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Matthew Reynolds, WIRED: Future of Food (2021, Penguin Random House) 4 stars

Visions for the future

4 stars

As with any book that has statistical data it is worth taking it with a pinch of salt. Data will change and can be outdated over time. Despite that the book raises many ideas about food production for the future.

The book despite being fairly short raised quite a lot of topics and issues with the current food production. The book starts out with talking about lab grown meat, discussing the challenges and how it has developed. Pesticides are mentioned throughout the book with mentions to crop yield. The book also shines a light on how to reduce or eliminate pesticides using technology amongst other ways to tackle the food system.