Wurgaft Benjamin Aldes - Meat Planet Artificial Flesh And The Future Of Food - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Meat Planet Artificial Flesh And The Future Of Food
Author(s): Wurgaft Benjamin Aldes
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520295537
Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Date: 9/3/2019
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Category: Cookery / Food & Drink Etc