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

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