• Question: Does your work help the world and the people on it?

    Asked by Rhys to Abi Aspen, Blanca, Dean, Ross, Tom on 8 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by 627fdfe28.
    • Photo: Dean Miles

      Dean Miles answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      It helps provide them with biscuits ! but this is also a balance with the waste products and waste packaging also generated by the company.

    • Photo: Ross Miller

      Ross Miller answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      In my case, we’re not helping mankind develop flying cars or solving a major global crisis. I think there are people in the food industry who are doing things to help world hunger and alternative food sources ( Abi Aspen’s biography is really interesting!)

      I think what we do in chocolate helps to create sustainable supplies of crops (cocoa, sugar), use energy more efficiently and create jobs for people of all backgrounds all around the world (PhD, graduates, apprentices, people who left school with few qualifications).

      At Bournville, we also do a lot of volunteer work with the local community including remodelling local parks, helping local community with CV’s and donations.

    • Photo: Abi Aspen Glencross

      Abi Aspen Glencross answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I really would like to hope so!

      The aim of cellular agriculture (what I do!) is to produce animal products without animals.

      The majority of our products now are produced via industrial farming. This type of farming has such a big negative impact on the environment, animal ethics and our health.

      However animal products are amazing! Their properties give rise to such incredible things like butter that makes your croissants flaky and milk that makes your yogurt creamy to the leather in you shoes and silk in your clothes.

      So imagine a world whereby we can keep these properties but reduce the impact. That’s where we come in.

      We also work alongside farmers who use their animals for land management in a cyclic sustainable way, in a hope that animal products will return to being seen as valuable items not something we take for granted. Both sides know that if we work together to combat factory farming practices we can really make a difference.

    • Photo: Blanca Mendizabal

      Blanca Mendizabal answered on 16 Mar 2016:

      I work to help people living in cities to be able to grow their own food even if they don’t have access to a piece of land. Gardening and food growing are activities that have a positive impact in mental health and healthy eating so I think that my work can make a big difference and help people struggling to find healthy food to eat.

      We are also working with an organisation in Ghana, Africa, to develop a project in a rural community that faces the problem of water scarcity. Hydroponics will help them to grow food using only 10% of the water needed in traditional agriculture.

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