02244cam a22003858i 4500 595953 595953 20822219 US-DLC 20200116131915.0 190118t20192019cau b 001 0 eng c 2019002873 9780520295537 (cloth : alk. paper) CU-S/DLC eng rda CU-S AU pcc Alfaisal Main Library TP447.M4 W87 2019 Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes, author. Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. ©2019 1909 Oakland, California : University of California Press, ©2019 ©2019 242 p: text rdacontent txt unmediated rdamedia n volume rdacarrier nc 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. Meat substitutes. Artificial foods. Meat industry and trade Moral and ethical aspects. local 4 Print books. Online version: Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes, author. Meat planet Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520968264 (DLC) 2019004418 lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2020-01-16 0 TP447.M4 W87 2019 AU00000000015876 2020-01-16 00:00:00 200.00 2020-01-16 BOOKS