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Food produced through technological processes—lab‑grown meat, fermentation‑derived proteins, genetically engineered crops, complete nutrition formulas—as substitutes for traditional agriculture. Synthetic food is promoted as a solution to environmental degradation, animal suffering, and food insecurity. Critics argue it centralizes control in a few corporations, erases food cultures, and treats eating as fuel rather than culture. The term highlights the shift from food as grown to food as manufactured, from cuisine to commodity.
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