Individual Topical Review Paper Outline

Lab-Grown Food- The Future of Our Food Source?

Executive Summary

This paper seeks to explore the

•  Problems arising from the current agriculture practice (Industrial Agriculture)
• Objective of Lab-grown food
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Lab-grown food as compared to current practice

Why I chose this topic?

A drastic problem, the world is facing, is the risk of shortage of food for the ever-rising population, the environmental & health issues caused by current agriculture practice. Therefore, this ties in to the topic, "Lab-Grown Food-The Future of Our Food Source?" History has proved time and again the importance of food to a civilization and how famine can cause a collapse of civilization, hence we look into how lab-grown food can tackle the various problems, is it feasible, practical and does it create another problem while solving one.

Background

•  What is lab-grown food?
•  Objective of lab-grown food

 Historical perspective

• How agriculture comes about?
•  History of agricultural revolution
• How technology is used in agriculture to help tackle starvation?

 Current situation

•  Effects of current agriculture practice (GM Food, Industrial Farming etc.)
•  Environmental Issue
• Health Issue
• Reasons behind the research on lab-grown food
• Current breakthrough in lab-grown food
• Advantages and disadvantages of lab-grown food (How will it help tackle problems? and controversies)

Future Consideration

• Will lab-grown food be the frontier to our food sources or others (insects)?
• Reducing the cost of lab-grown food?
• Will lab-grown food create another problem? (Food safety)
• Challenges lab-grown food will face (GM Food)
•  Singapore context: Meeting the future food demands and advantages of using this method in Singapore.

Conclusion

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