Food Consumer Insight Panel #Foodchat brought together four non-agricultural food consumers to share their thoughts on issues and concerns on food and its production. This was an opportunity for those in agriculture to listen.
Kind of a side ways trip in the food chain. Comedian George Egg demonstrates how to cook tortellini and how to bake muffins, all in a hotel room using just what he find there. Ray Mears meets Bear Grylls meets The Naked Chef.
Today there are nearly 1 billion hungry people around the globe. yet in only 50 years, our growing global population will require an estimated 100 percent more food than we produce today. Unfortunately, we will certainly not have 100 percent more high-quality land avail-
able to grow twice the amount of grain or two times more livestock.The U.N. Food and Agriculture organization (FAo) reports that
added farmland will help produce only 20 percent of the additional food our planet will need in 2050, and 10 percent will come from
increased cropping intensity. Accordingly, the FAo concludes that 70 percent of the world’s additional food needs can be produced only
with new and existing agricultural technologies.
The World's Changing Views of U.S. Livestock Agriculture.
Jon Caspers (Chairman of the Board, United States Meat Export Federation) speaking on behalf of Phil Seng, United States Meat Export Federation Service.
NIAA 2009 Annual Meeting The Changing Face of Agriculture, March 31 - April 1, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
