Fixing food
One bug at a time...
ending the paradigm
Dedicated to thinking different.
KarmaNutra are assembling some of the world's brightest minds to solve a problem: how are we going to feed ourselves, sustainably, in twenty years?
The world will have nine billion people in 2040. And we all need to eat. How can we do it? Without catastrophically milking our environment?
Today, one third of all caught fish - is fed back to farmed animals. One third of all farmed food is wasted. And livestock account for a nearly two thirds of the Earth's entire biomass. Farmed meat is literally eating the planet.
We need a new menu.
With a massive and sustained commitment to multidisciplinary research, on-going education, and agile regulation; through exploration of our disappearing undisturbed biomes to locate and conserve keystone species; by including the marginalised, always; by learning from indigenous communities and preserving their knowledge and lands, and by forming new partnerships between sustainable producers, distributors and consumers - we can change what we eat. And we have to start now.
With insects, seaweed and other algae, duckweed and mycelium, we're leveraging advancing techniques in synthetic biology, genomics and bioinformatics, biochemistry and microbiology - with indigenous knowledge and methods. Our modus is to evaluate, innovate and disseminate sustainable new ideas and opportunities - partnering consumers, producers, industry and governments, to kickstart a better food system for everyone.
Change won’t happen overnight. But if we don’t change, much of what we value, won’t survive. Join us. Let’s make our food safe, nutritious and sustainable, once again.
Circular food production
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Backing sustainability with innovation.
The future of food
In the next decade alone, demand for protein to feed the planet will increase by more then 20%. Our linear, resource depleting food system simply cannot sustain this. Insects can help us create a circular food supply - just as nature intended.
Harnessing Waste
Insects are nature's greatest up-cyclers. They can turn almost any organic waste stream into valuable food. Cereal waste can be efficiently converted to nutritious biomass to feed our animals, with biofertiliser and even biodiesel as by products.
The future of everything
Insects aren't only useful to help combat nutrition. Once proteins and fats are removed for food or feed - what's left is proving just as interesting. Insect exo-skeleton's contain Chitin - one of the world's most useful natural polymers...
*Bichos Para Mejorar La Vida is a landmark project in Chiapas Mexico, for SADER - Secretaria de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural. KarmaNutra is assisting a local non-profit to design the project, assemble the scientific team, and co-ordinate the research. A decision may be made in Q4 2023 for a potential Q2 2024 start.
Why should we change what we eat?
Good for the planet
80% of global farming land is currently used for grazing or to grow feed for livestock - that provide only 18% of our calories.
Intensive livestock farms produce more greenhouse gas emissions than transport, and heavily pollute both land and water.
But sustainable proteins use just 1/8th of the feed, release 1/25th of the emissions, use 1/50th of the water and 1/100th of the land.
Good for animals
60% of all mammals on Earth are now farmed livestock domesticated from < 20 wild species. A majority live in misery.
Tens of billions of sentient beings, with complex sensations and emotions, live and die in tiny cages and cruel production lines.
But there are now serious and sustainable alternatives for feeding our growing planet, which require no cruelty or sacrifice.
Good for all of us
A 100g insect snack* delivers 3x the protein of a beef patty, half the fat, more essential amino acids, and 10 x the dietary fiber*.
Ground Insects are tasty! And we don’t need to eat them with legs or wings - any more than we eat chicken with feathers.
Insect oils also have a highly advantageous combination of healthy fatty acids, unsaturated fats and essential nutrients.
* data using farmed Crickets and average retail ground beef
