3D Printing and the Future of Food

An extract from“Future Food: How Cutting Edge Technology and 3D Printing will Change the Way You Eat.”

Chapter Four

3D Printing Food: The Present

A surefire way to invoke horror and disgust in consumers is to expose one of the numerous stages in the mechanized food chain to a degree of scrutiny it does not commonly receive. Distrust of large companies and a near continuous campaign to discredit food science as either unnatural or potentially harmful has generated many meters of newsprint in r...