Main description:

Meat and Meat Replacements: An Interdisciplinary Assessment of Current Status and Future Directions provides an interdisciplinary view on the production and consumption of food, challenges to the traditional meat industry, and potential meat replacements. This reference includes chapters on basic food science and technology of meat products and meat replacements as well as coverage of their nutritional value. Sensory and consumer research is addressed, as are the economics of these products, the environmental consequences, and ethical considerations related to the environment and to the products themselves.

Meat and Meat Replacements is a helpful resource for food scientists, food and nutrition researchers, food engineers, product development scientists and managers, economists, and students studying meats and meat replacements.

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Cellular agriculture and the evolution of the human diet - a view from the Anthropocene 3. Meat and meat products: animal species, products, processing, quality, and shelf life 4. Eating quality of beef, pork and lamb based on consumer response 5. The nutritional characteristics and health-oriented advances of meat and meat products 6. Nutritional aspects and trends in meat replacement products 7. Nutritional and Health Value of Plant-based Meat Alternatives 8. Ethics in meat production 9. Ethical aspects of meat alternative products 10. Ethics of meat alternatives 11. The ethics of consuming meat 12. Consumer response to meat alternatives 13. Consumer response to protein alternatives 14. Environmental Impacts of Meat and Meat Replacements