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Future of Meat Without Animals

Future of Meat Without Animals

Donaldson, Brianne
Carter, Christopher

Paperback

Series: Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Po

PhilosophyTechnology & EngineeringAnthropology

ISBN10: 1783489065
ISBN13: 9781783489060
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Aug 22 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, costs less, and requires a fraction of the energy inputs. These products are no longer relegated to niche markets for ethical vegetarians, but are heavily funded by private investors betting on meat without animals as mass-market, environmentally feasible alternatives that can be scaled for a growing global population.

This volume examines conceptual and cultural opportunities, entanglements, and pitfalls in moving global meat, egg, and dairy consumption toward these animal-free options. Beyond surface tensions of meatless meat and animal-free flesh, deeper conflicts proliferate around naturalized accounts of human identity and meat consumption, as well as the linkage of protein with colonial power and gender oppression. What visions and technologies can disrupt modern agriculture? What economic and marketing channels are required to scale these products? What beings and ecosystems remain implicated in a livestock-free food system?

A future of meat without animals invites adjustments on the plate, but it also inspires renewed habits of mind as well as life-affirming innovations capable of nourishing the contours of our future selves. This book illuminates material and philosophical complexities that will shape the character of our future/s of food.

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