First of all, we will go the route of microbial proteins. Mycoproteins are a type of fungi, the same group of mushrooms and fungus, used for protein consumption. Currently, mycoprotein is used by companies such as Quorn™ brand, to create vegetarian options of meat. Unfortunately, mycoprotein used in the burgers need sugar, a large resource needing food source. However, there are still solutions.

Companies such as Solar Food and Air Protein have announced plans to make microbial foods in a less resource-based way. They will use chemosynthetic bacteria-derived food which will use the method of chemosynthesis. This method will not have the need for light as these plants use chemical reactions for energy. They believe that this goal will be met in the near future and commercially sold in stores.

Even if these chemosynthetic bacteria-derived foods fail in the market or consumers fail to eat them, they will use this method for livestock. Foods such as soy and fishmeal are used in livestock foods. However, soy is extremely anti-environmental as they generate a lot of GHG (GreenHouse Gases). Furthermore, fishmeal will ignite concerns of overfishing if humans keep using fish excessively. Although livestock is still harming the environment, chemosynthetic bacteria-derived food can at least resolve half of the problem of mass production of feed. Therefore, we can use this technology of microbial foods to resolve livestock’s feed as well as a better food source.