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Author Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes, author.

Title Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages)
Series California studies in food and culture ; 69
California studies in food and culture ; 69.
Contents Cyberspace/meatspace -- Meat -- Promise -- Fog -- Doubt -- Hope -- Tree -- Future -- Prometheus -- Memento -- Copy -- Philosophers -- Maastricht -- Kosher -- Whale -- Cannibals -- Gathering/parting -- Epimetheus
Summary "Meat Planet explores the quest to grow meat in laboratories--a substance sometimes called "cultured meat"--And asks what it means to imagine that this is the future of food. This book takes the reader on a tour of the laboratories, kitchens, public debates, and media events that may launch this novel food technology. While pundits and entrepreneurs promote cultured meat as a solution to the ethical and environmental problems of industrial meat, Meat Planet meditates on the philosophical, historical and anthropological meanings of future flesh"--Provided by publisher
Analysis animals
capitalism
cultured meat
fake meat
farmland
food system
fragile ecosystem
future of food
generating meat in the lab
growing appetite for meat
hamburger
justice
lab created meat
lab grown
manufactured meat
meat
production
social and political
sustainable protein
sustaining life
vegan
vegetarian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Meat substitutes.
Artificial foods.
Meat industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
Artificial foods
Meat substitutes
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019004418
ISBN 9780520968264
0520968263