Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food /

Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes,

Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

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.



9780520968264

2019004418


Meat substitutes.
Artificial foods.
Meat industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.


Electronic Books.

TP447 / .M438 2019