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Singapore's food ambitions, which centre on high-tech solutions to help make it more self-sufficient in terms of what it eats, while aiming to export solutions to other cities feeling the bite of climate change.
The latest move seeks to grow firms that focus on plant-based proteins to produce meat clones.
the country's potential to leverage science, technology and innovation to overcome land and resource constraints, and to grow more with less sustainably.
Singapore is concentrating efforts on increasing the nation's food output, with the ambitious goal of producing 30 per cent of what people need to eat by 2030, from less than a tenth now
technology to create plant-based proteins, as they have a lower carbon footprint than meat and do not involve killing animals.
-creating meat in the lab will alleviate a lot ethical issues with regard to how we grow and prepare animals for food
-ethical impact is not confined only to cruel treatment of animals, but also mother nature in the sense of less land need to be cleared, less carbon footprints incurred when food is not flown here from other ctys but grown here in Singapore
-food security for S'pore (90% of our food is currently imported; only 10% home-sourced)
-potential of food industry for export; contribution to economic growth
Qns:
1. How far should countries aim to be self-sufficient? (Cam. 2011)
Singapore's food ambitions, which centre on high-tech solutions to help make it more self-sufficient in terms of what it eats, while aiming to export solutions to other cities feeling the bite of climate change.
The latest move seeks to grow firms that focus on plant-based proteins to produce meat clones.
the country's potential to leverage science, technology and innovation to overcome land and resource constraints, and to grow more with less sustainably.
Singapore is concentrating efforts on increasing the nation's food output, with the ambitious goal of producing 30 per cent of what people need to eat by 2030, from less than a tenth now
technology to create plant-based proteins, as they have a lower carbon footprint than meat and do not involve killing animals.
Farmers in Singapore have already taken up the challenge, by building indoor LED-lighting vegetable farms and multi-storey aquaculture systems which can boost yields by up to 15 times, for instance.
Others are working on lab-grown meat, as well as vegetable substitutes which look and taste like meat.
Note:-creating meat in the lab will alleviate a lot ethical issues with regard to how we grow and prepare animals for food
-ethical impact is not confined only to cruel treatment of animals, but also mother nature in the sense of less land need to be cleared, less carbon footprints incurred when food is not flown here from other ctys but grown here in Singapore
-food security for S'pore (90% of our food is currently imported; only 10% home-sourced)
-potential of food industry for export; contribution to economic growth
Qns:
1. How far should countries aim to be self-sufficient? (Cam. 2011)
2. To what
extent are the rights of animals protected in your society? (Cam. 2012)
3. Can the
transport of food over vast distances be justified? (Cam. 2009)
4. Is
effective farming possible without science? (Cam. 2005)
5. Given
the growing demand for food, is it possible to conserve the environment? (MJC
2018)
6. ‘It
is increasingly difficult to be ethical in today’s world.’ How far is this
true? (ACJC 2014)
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