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Meat Planet - Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food (Hardcover)
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Meat Planet - Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food (Hardcover)
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, 69
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In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world's first
laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing
meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues,
has spread like wildfire through the media. Meanwhile, cultured
meat researchers race against population growth and climate change
in an effort to make sustainable protein. Meat Planet explores the
quest to generate meat in the lab-a substance sometimes called
"cultured meat"-and asks what it means to imagine that this is the
future of food. Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat,
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon.
In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach
beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite,
growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for
meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one
technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems
in our food system, the meat problem is not merely a problem of
production. It is intrinsically social and political, and it
demands that we examine questions of justice and desirable modes of
living in a shared and finite world. Benjamin Wurgaft tells a story
that could utterly transform the way we think of animals, the way
we relate to farmland, the way we use water, and the way we think
about population and our fragile ecosystem's capacity to sustain
life. He argues that even if cultured meat does not "succeed," it
functions-much like science fiction-as a crucial mirror that we can
hold up to our contemporary fleshy dysfunctions.
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