--- title: The Harvest Blog | Shen Tong description: The Harvest Blog --- ###### FoodFutureCo is now TheFutureCo! Explore our new website **[here](http://nowisthefuture.co)**. 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Food from the “industrialized” food system is less nutritionally dense than organic, sustainably-grown food. The crops grown today in poor soil with the aid of synthetic chemicals are more sugary and less nutrient rich than crops from 50 years ago. Share [Tweet](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2018/5/31/the-good-food-debate-tech-vs-tradition&text=Debating%20Good%20Food%20Through%20Tech%20and%20Tradition) [![submit to reddit](https://foodfuture.co/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FoodFutureCo_August_2023/images/spreddit7.gif)](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2018/5/31/the-good-food-debate-tech-vs-tradition) [![](https://foodfuture.co/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FoodFutureCo_August_2023/images/PinExt.png "Pin It")](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2018/5/31/the-good-food-debate-tech-vs-tradition&https://40105424.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/40105424/Imported_Blog_Media/blog%20post%20image2.jpg) [Share on Tumblr](https://tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2018/5/31/the-good-food-debate-tech-vs-tradition&name=Debating%20Good%20Food%20Through%20Tech%20and%20Tradition) ## [Debating Good Food Through Tech and Tradition](https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2018/5/31/the-good-food-debate-tech-vs-tradition) May 31, 2018 The food system is broken. Factory farming and monocultures are rapidly degrading the environment and depleting our resources. Within the good food movement, there is widespread consensus about this. Where the real debate lies is in how we should fix it. Is more technology the answer to food sustainability or the problem? Will lab-grown meat and engineered faux meat lead the way to a carbon-neutral future or will the solution come from the plant-based movement? Quite possibly the answer will incorporate innovations from both technological advancement and culinary/agricultural tradition. Regardless of which gains Share [Tweet](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2017/1/30/good-food-is-a-human-right&text=Good%20Food%20is%20a%20Human%20Right) [![submit to reddit](https://foodfuture.co/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FoodFutureCo_August_2023/images/spreddit7.gif)](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2017/1/30/good-food-is-a-human-right) [![](https://foodfuture.co/hubfs/raw_assets/public/FoodFutureCo_August_2023/images/PinExt.png "Pin It")](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2017/1/30/good-food-is-a-human-right&https://40105424.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/40105424/Imported_Blog_Media/Good%20Food%20is%20a%20Human%20Right.jpg) [Share on Tumblr](https://tumblr.com/share/link?url=https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2017/1/30/good-food-is-a-human-right&name=Good%20Food%20is%20a%20Human%20Right) ## [Good Food is a Human Right](https://foodfuture.co/harvestblog/2017/1/30/good-food-is-a-human-right) January 30, 2017 Movements do not and cannot exist in a vacuum The past year’s emotionally, politically charged election and the recent transition to a new presidential administration have illuminated this fundamental truth. 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