Next month, food futurists, experts and innovators, together with Hawke’s Bay’s and New Zealand’s food industry will come together at the Future Foods Conference 2018 to discuss how the global future of food is changing.
New Zealand is increasingly influenced by global food trends, said Business Hawke’s Bay CEO Carolyn Neville.
“It’s essential that we understand the current trends, the factors shaping consumer choice and what that means for the global food industry,” she said. “The future of food is changing faster than ever before, so it’s important for New Zealand and Hawke’s Bay producers to understand what the global food industry might look like in the future and the opportunities it presents.”
Peter Randrup, director of edible insect company Anteater, said that the future of protein will be insects, plants, algae, and lab-grown meat.
“In a survey of 250,000 people, 50 percent said they would eat insects instead of beef, if it helped the environment. Think of how much impact any current food group has on our food system – dairy, fungi, vegetables, seafood. The western world has just discovered another food group – insects. The impact this will have on our food system will be no less profound than the discovery of dairy.”
