A conference later in the summer will bring experts in the field together to discuss the future of food. 食品专家们将在这个夏季举行一次讨论有关未来食品的会议。 It’s a thorny subject. The world's population is growing, prices are rising and developing countries with huge numbers of mouths to feed - like China and India - are devouring more of the food the world produces. On top of it all nobody is quite sure what climate change will do to food production in the years to come. 食品问题是个棘手的问题。全世界人口数量在增加,特别是像中国和印度这种发展中国家的食品消耗量极大,超过了食品产出的速度。当然最让人们头痛的问题还是未来的气候对食品生产的影响。 Many experts think that, taken together, these factors make a fundamental change in our diets inevitable. Here’s what we could be eating, and how we might be eating it, in the not-too-distant future. 许多专家一致认为,综合诸多因素对食品的影响,改变未来人们的饮食结构势在必行。以下就是人类在不久的未来可能要搬上我们餐桌的食品。 There has been a lot of talk about edible insects recently and with good reason. According to researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands insects provide as much nutritional value as any other meat and are a good source of protein. They’re also in abundant supply. |