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From Impossible Burgers to labmade sushi two witty pluggedin food scientists explore leadingedge AgTech for the answer to feeding a settlement on Marsand nine billion Earthlings too

Feeding a Martian is one of the greatest challenges in the history of agriculture Will a Red Planet menu involve cheese and ice cream made from vats of fermented yeast Will medicine cabinets overflow with pharmaceuticals created from engineered barley grown using geothermal energy Will the protein of choice feature a chicken breast grown in a lab Weird wonderful and sometimes disgusting figuring out whats for dinner on Mars is far from trivial If we can figure out how to sustain ourselves on Mars we will know how to do it on Earth too In Dinner on Mars authors Fraser and Newman show how setting the table offplanet will supercharge efforts to produce food sustainably here at home

For futurists scifi geeks tech nuts business leaders and anyone interested in the future of food Dinner on Mars puts sustainability and adaptability on the menu in the face of our climate crisis