You likely noticed that soy has played a part in a lot of our episodes of Eating Tomorrow. Indeed, our foray into the future of food forest was inspired and sponsored by the work of U.S. Soy and the farmer families it represents.

A simple search will reveal a wide range of attitudes about soy and its role in our lives today. However, what you may not be able to quickly find is what role it could play in our lives tomorrow.

In this episode of Eating Tomorrow, we hear directly from an Iowa-based father-son soybean farming duo. We learn about their embrace of production innovations, their sustainability practices, and how soy’s versatility enables its resilience. Above all, we learn how soy is writing a story about the future of food.

Why would soybean producing families be directly concerned about the future of food?

For complete show notes and more of the future food main course, go to https://ussoy.org/eating-tomorrow-podcast-series/.

Every day your social media feed is full of new food and diet experts, some new technology, another report of endangered foods, and the global impact of water shortages. All of this can overwhelm, and, in some cases, make attempts to solve challenges feel impossible.

Something important to remember is that it is not just the world that is constantly changing but you are as well. What is possible in the future is dependent on what we do in our present. We, with our choices, have the chance to influence what is to come.

In this episode of Eating Tomorrow, we venture into the world around us with a new set of eyes. We convert limitations into possibilities. We transform trash into treasure. We yum the usual yuck. Be prepared to break taboos and adjust your vision to include the impacts of climate change and the future that is already upon us.

How can we look at the world around us in a new way that creates hope for our future? Who are some of the people who are making possibility more urgent?

For complete show notes and more of the future food main course, go to https://ussoy.org/eating-tomorrow-podcast-series/.

Try this. Close your eyes. Add ten years to your age. Now, think about sitting down to dinner in your house. Who else is there? Where is your house? What kind of music are each of you streaming into your personalized experience domes?

What happens when a lot of us try to think about the future is we drift into fanciful science fiction. However, the fact is a lot of those ideas we think are so distant are already here. Printable foods, robot nutritionists, and edible packaging all exist right now.

In this episode of Eating Tomorrow, we uncover the not-so-obvious, quiet trends that have the potential to drastically impact the future of food. We examine the human values, assumptions, and traditions that define a “good food.” And, of course, it would not be an episode about the future of food without talking about artificial intelligence.

What are the trends on the horizon that could disrupt the future of food? What assumptions do we make about food and what it means to us?

For complete show notes and more of the future food main course, go to https://ussoy.org/eating-tomorrow-podcast-series/.