Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft.

By:

Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520968264

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

TP447 .M438 2019

Online resources:

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Contents:

Meat -- Promise -- Fog -- Doubt -- Hope -- Tree -- Future -- Prometheus -- Memento -- Copy -- Philosophers -- Maastricht -- Kosher -- Whale -- Cannibals -- Gathering/parting -- Epimetheus.

Subject: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	TP447.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1084619988

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cyberspace/meatspace -- Meat -- Promise -- Fog -- Doubt -- Hope -- Tree -- Future -- Prometheus -- Memento -- Copy -- Philosophers -- Maastricht -- Kosher -- Whale -- Cannibals -- Gathering/parting -- Epimetheus.

"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.

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