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The Future of Meat Without Animals Brianne Donaldson

The Future of Meat Without Animals By Brianne Donaldson

The Future of Meat Without Animals by Brianne Donaldson


Summary

This volume provides historical, material, aesthetic, and philosophical explorations of plant-based and in vitro food products, including multi-disciplinary approaches from industry, academia, and food advocates.

The Future of Meat Without Animals Summary

The Future of Meat Without Animals by Brianne Donaldson

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.

The Future of Meat Without Animals Reviews

Are we on the edge of a future without meat from animals? For the past 45 years, I've been waiting for that future. It's not here yet, but this collection of diverse essays gives reason to hope that - despite the major obstacles still standing in the way - it is not far away. -- Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation
The Future of Meat Without Animals raises vital questions at a moment poised between a harmful and unsustainable industrial animal agriculture and growing interest in plant-based and cultured alternatives to meat, milk, eggs, and cheese. It provides consumers, activists, and scholars with critical resources and innovative ways of thinking about animals, agriculture, meat, and meaning while calling for the essential deindustrialization of our multispecies relationships. -- Brett Mizelle, Professor of History, California State University, Long Beach
How did we end up in this mess? What changes are needed to combat the looming threat of ecocide, induced by animal agriculture? And what are the challenges and potential downfalls that might accompany attempts to implement these changes? These are the questions that a diverse array of independent scholars, animal advocacy workers, CEOs and employees of plant-based and cellular-cultured food companies, and academics ask and attempt to answer in The Future of Meat without Animals. [...] This book is one that both academics from various disciplines and food producers will appreciate; it offers something of value for everyone who hopes for a future without animal exploitation and agriculture-induced environmental devastation. * Environmental Ethics, Vol. 39, no. 3, 2017 *

About Brianne Donaldson

Brianne Donaldson is a farmed animal advocate and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Monmouth College. Christopher Carter is Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of San Diego in the Theology and Religious Studies Department. His research focuses on black and womanist theological ethics, environmental ethics, and animals and religion Contributors: Brian Henning, Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Gonzaga University, USA; Ethan Brown, CEO, Beyond Meat; Michael Anderson, Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Theological Union, USA; Jaya Bhumitra, Director of Corporate Outreach, Mercy for Animals; Vasile Stanescu, Assistant Professor of Communication and Theater, Mercer University, USA; Joey Tuminello, Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas, USA, and Program Coordinator for Farm Forward; Steven McMullen, Assistant Professor of Economics, Hope College, USA; Song Tian, Associate Professor, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Beijing Normal University, China; Shivani Bothra, Doctoral Candidate, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; Christopher Carter, Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, University of San Diego, USA; Matthew Calarco, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University Fullerton, USA; Eileen Crist, Associate Professor of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech University, USA; Michael Marder, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Basque Country Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Brianne Donaldson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Monmouth College, USA; Rebekah Sinclair, Doctoral Candidate, University of Oregon, USA; Carol Adams, Author and activist; Aaron Gross, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego, USA, and CEO, Farm Forward; Adam Wolpa, Associate Professor of Art and Art History, Calvin College, USA

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables / Introduction, Brianne Donaldson / Part I: Our Past Cannot Meat the Future / Beyond Meat, Ethan Brown / 1. Towards 2050: The Projected Costs and Possible Alternatives to Industrial Livestock Production, Brian G. Henning / 2. An Ethical Consumer Capitalism, Steven McMullen / 3. The Vegetable Basket Project: Tracking the Increase of Meat Production and Consumption in China Since the 1980s, Song Tian, with Yao Wang and Mo Zhao. Translated by Yuan Gao / 4. The Rise of Non-Veg: Meat and Egg Consumption and Production in Contemporary India, Ana Bajzelj and Shivani Bothra / 5. Seeing Meat Without Animals: Attitudes for the Future, Adam Wolpa / Part II: Nourishing Innovation/s / Miyoko's Kitchen: Artisan Vegan Cheese, Miyoko Schinner / 6. Meat Without Flesh, Michael Marder / 7. The Future of Animals, The Future of Food: Two Organizations Working to Change Public Attitudes and Appetites, Jaya Bhumitra and Bruce Friedrich / 8. New Harvest: Building the Cellular Agriculture Economy, Isha Datar, Gilonne d'Origny, and Erin Kim / 9. Beyond Happy Meat: The (im)Possibilities of Humane, Local and Compassionate Meat, Vasile Stanescu / 10. The Future of Industrial Agriculture: An Environmental Justice Perspective, Joseph A. Tuminello / 11. Exploiting Fantasy: Overconformity in Animal Agriculture, Meatless Meat, and Animal Ethics, Brianne Donaldson / Part III. Matters of Taste / Hampton Creek-Dear You, Josh Tetrick / 12. Eating Prometheus' Liver: Geoengineered Meat from 1875 to the Present, Michael Anderson / 13. Vegan Soul: Moving Beyond (animal) Meat In Black Communities, Christopher Carter / 14. The Sexual Politics of Meatless Meat: (in)Edible Others and The Myth of Flesh Without Sacrifice, Rebekah Sinclair / 15. Ethical Spectacles and Seitan-Making: Beyond the Sexual Politics of Meat-A Response to Sinclair, Carol J. Adams / 16. Making Meaning Without Meat: A How-to Guide, Aaron Gross / 17. Altermobilities: Animals, Mobility, and the Future of Meat, Matthew Calarco / 18. Epilogue, Christopher Carter / Appendix A: A (non-exhaustive) List of Plant-Based and Cultured Meat Food Producers, Funders, and Innovation, Saadullah Bashir / Appendix B: Strategies for Plant-Based Food Producers / Bibliography / Biographies / Index

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NLS9781783489060
9781783489060
1783489065
The Future of Meat Without Animals by Brianne Donaldson
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Rowman & Littlefield International
2016-08-22
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