Part of the problem with our eating habits is not so much the food as the packaging. We buy food wrapped in millions of tonnes of it and throw it away.
现目前，食品工业面临的一个巨大问题就是食品过度包装。我们消耗食品的同时也耗尽了上百吨的食品包装，而食品包装在消费者手上的的最后宿命就是扔进垃圾桶。
One solution is just to eat it - the packaging, that is. Harvard engineer David Edwards has already produced edible packaging for fruit juices, coffee, ice cream and other products. The packaging, made from natural food particles held together by ions, is strong, edible and can be made to taste pretty good too.
在未来，对于这个问题的解决方式就是吃掉这些包装！就这么简单。哈弗大学工程师戴维德.爱德华已经开始着手可食用包装的生产研究，咖啡、水果、冰淇淋等食物的包装可以直接食用。这些包装都是有自然可食用物质合成，和结实，也能做成美味的食物。
Some of these innovations may not happen, but experts are now all but certain many of them will (and some are happening already). In the next few decades our eating habits may have to radically change, for the good of our health and the future of the planet.
当然，科学家们这些大胆的创新也许在未来并不会全部实现，但其中有很多都是可行的，部分已经开始面向大众推广了。在未来的几十年里，人类的饮食习惯肯定会发生巨大的变化，当然这些变化都是有益于我们自身健康以及我们共同赖以生存的星球的。