After Meat
Karthik Sekar
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.
Duration - 11h 6m.
Author - Karthik Sekar.
Narrator - Laurel Lefkow.
Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2021 Karthik Sekar ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
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. Duration - 11h 6m. Author - Karthik Sekar. Narrator - Laurel Lefkow. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 2021 Karthik Sekar ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:13
Introduction
Duration:00:08:21
Chapter 1: Solving Problems
Duration:00:42:07
Chapter 2: Knowledge and Technological Innovation
Duration:00:48:51
Chapter 3: Processes and Competitors to Animal Technology
Duration:00:50:16
Chapter 4: Animals by the Numbers
Duration:00:57:53
Chapter 5: Intractability of Animal Technology
Duration:01:06:51
Chapter 6: Nutrition and Animal Products
Duration:01:07:29
Chapter 7: Hedonism and Food
Duration:00:50:44
Chapter 8: The Expanse of Amazing Foods
Duration:00:53:16
Chapter 9: Realizing New Technology
Duration:00:57:32
Chapter 10: What Can Everybody Do?
Duration:00:44:18
Chapter 11: Morality, Animals, and Technological Progress
Duration:00:50:41
Chapter 12: Final Thoughts
Duration:00:09:22
Appendix A: Predicting the Future
Duration:00:58:01
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:20