Meals to Come - A History of the Future of Food

Preface vii PART I. DEBATING THE FUTURE OF FOOD: THE BATTLE OF THE THINK TANKS 1 The Stakes in Our Steaks 3(17) 2 The Debate: Will the World Run Out of Food? 20(41) 3 The Deep Structure of the Debate 61(34) PART II. IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF FOOD: SPECULATIVE FICTION 4 The Utopian Caveat 95(24) 5 Dystopias 119(30) PART III. THINGS TO COME: THREE CORNUCOPIAN FUTURES 6 The Classical Future 149(17) 7 The Modernist Future 166(53) 8 The Recombinant Future 219(44) Postscript 263(4) Notes 267(50) Selected Bibliography 317(16) Acknowledgments 333(4) Index 337