Meat planet :
Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes,
Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. - ©2019 - 242 p:
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780520295537 (cloth : alk. paper)
2019002873
Meat substitutes.
Artificial foods.
Meat industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.
Print books.
TP447.M4 / W87 2019
Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. - ©2019 - 242 p:
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780520295537 (cloth : alk. paper)
2019002873
Meat substitutes.
Artificial foods.
Meat industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.
Print books.
TP447.M4 / W87 2019