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.

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 Bajželj 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 St¿nescu / 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

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