Eating Promiscuously: Adventures in the Future of Food

A bold and bracing argument for the complete reimagining of the human diet by the critically acclaimed author of Just Food



The human practice of farming food has failed. There are 7,500 known varieties of domesticated apples; we regularly eat about five. Seventy–five percent of the world's food derives from five animals and twelve plants. Factory farmed meat is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (about 14 percent, larger than transportation) and consumes 75 percent of the water in d...