Today—the future: Meat forecast

Abstract

Usually, historical books do not concern the future. History and future studies are two fascinating fields that only rarely intertwine. Challenging this rule, the last chapter of this historic book focuses on ideas and forecasts revolving around the futures of meat, and specifically on the old idea of producing meat without killing animals. The chapter also focuses on the representations of this kind of meat in science-fiction. However, the chapter stars with a personal experience I had in 2017, when I met the future in a small village of Veneto, Italy. The flash fiction centers on the sense of meat-nostalgia that these new forms of meat and technology might produce.