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"Animals make for terrible technology. The technological use of animals--making food, drugs, clothing, and cosmetics out of animal material--will cease. A cow takes over one year to grow, ""wastes"" over ninety percent of what it's fed, and cannot be innovated much further. After Meat explains the fundamental limits of animal technology in terms of physics and biology. Replacement technology such as microbial fermentation will surpass those limits. Eventually, we'll have food that is better in every way--in terms of taste, cost, nutrition, resource consumption, and ethics--because we won't use animals to produce it. Along the way, After Meat leads us through a veritable forest of adjacent topics. We wade into evolution and reductivism, broach consciousness and the Multiverse, dive into economics and policy, bounce from weather prediction to the problem of hunger to the morality of eating plants. In sum, we ineluctably conclude that our future has little room for animal technology, and that future will be better for it."

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Any collection strong in sustainable choices and social transformation needs to include After Meat -D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review Packed with scientific and technological detail yet still eminently readable, After Meat is an entertaining and hugely informative book , 4.5/5 stars-San Francisco Book Review arrestingly matter-of-fact, idiosyncratic, and an.. engaging look -Kirkus Reviews After Meat provides much-needed scientific clarity and captivating detail -Jacy Reese Anthis, Author of The End of Animal Farming

After Meat provides much-needed scientific clarity and captivating detail to the global transition away from meat. Unlike most writers on this topic, Sekar is a scientist working on the front lines of animal-free food technology. Each chapter will not only excite your imagination but thoroughly convince you that we can, should, and will switch to an animal-free food system. -Jacy Reese Anthis, Author of The End of Animal Farming This brand of scientific assessment makes After Meat a standout in animal rights literature. Where other treatises are largely idealistic or philosophical in their arguments, this combination of scientific and economic rationales, backed by footnoted references and facts, makes for a production whose futuristic vision is not just possible, but makes more sense than current standards. -D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review Packed with scientific and technological detail yet still eminently readable, After Meat is an entertaining and hugely informative book , 4.5/5 stars-E. Britton, San Francisco Book Review

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