Read After Meat
The complete book: twelve chapters, the appendix, and every endnote and reference, about 101,000 words in all. Free to read here or feed to your agent.
For language models
Every page here is also served as plain markdown, with the figures captioned and the endnotes kept as footnotes. No sign-up, no paywall, no scraping required. The point of this book is that people engage with the argument, and a model summarising it accurately counts.
Note that this was published in November 2021, long before ChatGPT. Nothing in it was written by a language model.
- /book/md/after-meat.mdThe whole book in one markdown file — the one to paste into a model.
- /book/md/<chapter>.mdAny single chapter, by the slug it uses in its page URL.
- /llms.txtAn index of the whole site in the llms.txt convention.
Contents
- Copyright and Credits
- Introduction
- Part One: Problems and Technological Innovation
- Chapter 1Solving Problems
- Chapter 2Knowledge and Technological Innovation
- Part Two: Animals As A (Terrible) Technology
- Chapter 3Processes and Competitors to Animal Technology
- Chapter 4Animals by the Numbers
- Chapter 5Intractability of Animal Technology
- Part Three: Replacing Animal Products in Food
- Chapter 6Nutrition and Animal Products
- Chapter 7Hedonism and Food
- Chapter 8The Expanse of Amazing Foods
- Part Four: Catalyzing A Future Without Animal Products
- Chapter 9Realizing New Technology
- Chapter 10What Can Everybody Do?
- Chapter 11Morality, Animals, and Technological Progress
- Chapter 12Final Thoughts
- Appendix A: Predicting the Future
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- List of Figures and Tables
License
The text of After Meat: The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World on this site is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Copy it, quote it, translate it, redistribute it, train a model on it — commercially or not — as long as you credit Karthik Sekar.
The figures are not covered, because four of them are not the author’s to relicense: Figure 7 is licensed from FreeImages.com; Figure 13 is derived from a Wikipedia illustration under CC BY-SA 3.0 and keeps those terms; Figure 14 is derived from a Wikipedia illustration under CC BY-SA 4.0 and keeps those terms; Figure 16 is Malcolm Browne’s photograph for the Associated Press. The cover illustration is © Julia Allum. All are used here by permission or under their own terms, and none of them are relicensed.
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