My position paper subject is on lab-grown meat. This is a new and emerging way of producing meat. Beef is eaten in abundance, Europe currently eats approximately 11kg per person and the US eats approximately 25kg per person a year(2). This may sound small but that value is huge when you multiply it by the total population(1). Europe eats ~8.13 Billion kg and the US eats ~9.04 billion kg. The production of beef is clearly breaching ethical, environmentally-friendly and safe levels. Cows, like many animals, are usually fed with soybean meat. Soybean production is an agriculturally damaging process, that is currently "overtaking huge areas in fragile ecosystems such as the:
Climate change is another key factor here, where livestock production accounts for 37% methane and 65% nitrous oxide. Though the transport sector contribute much greater in carbon dioxide, methane is 23 times and nitrous oxide is 296 times more effective at raising the global average temperature (4). 1. http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-population/
2. https://data.oecd.org/agroutput/meat-consumption.htm 3. http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/consumers/ 4. http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html When designers talk about Apple, the response is usually that similar to Marmite. Despite the controversy, I believe Steve Jobs was an incredibly cunning and motivated man. There are many things designers and entrepreneurs can learn from such a man. The points I saw to be
![]() Horizon Scanning is to look to the future. In design, this could be looking at how the medical field will change with the introduction of technologies like AI. People like Elon Musk, who constantly speak and work on projects that are based around what the future holds (and should hold) are the most successful. The phone industry is a prime example of how massive industries play it safe to get a steady amount of income, their objectives are focused on monetary gains rather than product innovation. Luke Sienna, gave us an overview of the product development process in the medical field. Currently, it takes a lot of work to get a product, process or material to be accepted by a medical service. There are many loops to jump through, going through Regulatory bodies, PPI Groups (Patient and public involvement), government regulators, etc. Then there are things like Brexit that have the potential to bring about a change. This could be a way of speeding up the process. |
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