(November 2, 2015) In
2030, new sources that will not accelerate climate change and that are located
near the consumer will make available both food and fodder. New foodstuffs are
being developed by breeding insects, cultivating mushrooms and processing
vegetable raw materials.
The bulk of the protein on our plates originates in Brazil,
because the protein fodder consumed by food-producing animals consists mostly
of soy grown there. If the vision proposed by the ScenoProt project,
coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), becomes reality,
by 2030 our food production will no longer be dependent on a handful of large
Brazilian companies.
“This project seeks to increase Finland’s self-sufficiency
in protein production from the current less-than-twenty to sixty per cent. A
similar change must take place in the whole of Europe, as soy cultivation
destroys rain forest in Brazil, accelerating the climate change,” says
Principal Research Scientist Anne Pihlanto of Luke.
New foodstuffs pave the way to a healthier diet
Efforts are taken to increase self-sufficiency in protein
protection by developing foodstuffs in which protein originates in new sources,
such as insects and mushrooms, and by processing vegetable raw materials to
form more usable products.
By 2030, we will be in better health because we will consume
less meat and more vegetables.