After Meat: The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World

Written by Karthik Sekar

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow

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. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karthik Sekar
• Release date: Nov 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9780578944302

Karthik Sekar

Karthik has a doctorate in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and postdoctoral research experience from ETH Zurich. Karthik's research career has spanned many topics related to the future of food including bioreactor design, microbiology, metabolism, and systems/quantitative biology. He currently works as a data scientist to develop next-generation vegan alternatives in the San Francisco Bay Area.