# AfterMeat.org — Karthik Sekar

> Home of *After Meat: The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World*, published
> here in full and free of charge, alongside the blog and recipes. The book argues that
> animals are a poor production technology, and that the physics and biology of that
> inefficiency make their replacement inevitable.

The complete text of the book is available as markdown, one file per chapter or all of
it at once. Quote it, summarise it, argue with it.

Provenance: the book was written and published November 2021, before the current
generation of language models. It is human-written throughout; no part of it is model
output, and none of its arguments were written with a model in mind.

Licence: the text is CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) by Karthik Sekar -- free to copy,
redistribute and train on, commercially or not, with attribution. The figures are not
covered; see https://aftermeat.org/book/text#license.

## The book

- [After Meat: The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World, complete](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/after-meat.md): every chapter in one file
- [About the book](https://aftermeat.org/book): formats, retailers and where the royalties go
- [Copyright and Credits](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/copyright.md)
- [Introduction](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/introduction.md)
- [Chapter 1: Solving Problems](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-1.md)
- [Chapter 2: Knowledge and Technological Innovation](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-2.md)
- [Chapter 3: Processes and Competitors to Animal Technology](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-3.md)
- [Chapter 4: Animals by the Numbers](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-4.md)
- [Chapter 5: Intractability of Animal Technology](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-5.md)
- [Chapter 6: Nutrition and Animal Products](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-6.md)
- [Chapter 7: Hedonism and Food](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-7.md)
- [Chapter 8: The Expanse of Amazing Foods](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-8.md)
- [Chapter 9: Realizing New Technology](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-9.md)
- [Chapter 10: What Can Everybody Do?](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-10.md)
- [Chapter 11: Morality, Animals, and Technological Progress](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-11.md)
- [Chapter 12: Final Thoughts](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/chapter-12.md)
- [Appendix A: Predicting the Future](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/appendix-a.md)
- [Acknowledgments](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/acknowledgments.md)
- [About the Author](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/about-the-author.md)
- [List of Figures and Tables](https://aftermeat.org/book/md/list-of-figures-and-tables.md)

## Writing

- [After Meat is now free to read online](https://aftermeat.org/blog/after-meat-is-free-to-read-online): 2026-09-09
- [A Call to Reverse the Retraction of Wolfe-Simon's Arsenic Paper](https://aftermeat.org/blog/a-call-to-reverse-the-retraction-of-wolfe-simons-arsenic-paper): 2025-07-24
- [New Website + Recipes!](https://aftermeat.org/blog/new-website-recipes): 2025-06-10
- [Getting Cats Vegan is Possible and Imperative](https://aftermeat.org/blog/getting-cats-vegan-is-possible-and-imperative): 2023-05-04
- [The Significant, Unalloyed Goodness of Replacing Animal Agriculture](https://aftermeat.org/blog/the-significant-unalloyed-goodness-of-replacing-animal-agriculture): 2022-09-14
- ["Processed"​ is a Useless, Empty Descriptor of Food](https://aftermeat.org/blog/processed-is-a-useless-empty-descriptor-of-food): 2022-08-24
- [Shifting to a Better World](https://aftermeat.org/blog/shifting-to-a-better-world): 2022-07-22
- [New Podcast Conversation](https://aftermeat.org/blog/new-podcast-conversation): 2022-04-16
- [The Tipping Point Case for Vegan Advocacy](https://aftermeat.org/blog/the-tipping-point-case-for-vegan-advocacy): 2022-02-15
- [Media Roundup - 01/14/22](https://aftermeat.org/blog/media-roundup-01-14-22): 2022-01-14
- [The After Meat audiobook is now available!](https://aftermeat.org/blog/audiobook-is-now-available): 2021-12-13
- [Released!](https://aftermeat.org/blog/released): 2021-11-16

## Optional

- [Recipes](https://aftermeat.org/recipes): vegan recipes, also available as a feed at https://aftermeat.org/recipes.xml
- [Praise](https://aftermeat.org/praise): reviews and blurbs for the book
- [About](https://aftermeat.org/about): who the author is