Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
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Biology, it's the technology which builds our world, and we can harness it to shift humanity from a scarcity to an abundance economy.
It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.
It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.
There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.
That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain.
Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.