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Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft.

LIBRA TP447.M4 W87 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes, author.
Series:
California studies in food and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Meat substitutes.
Artificial foods.
Meat industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.
Meat industry and trade.
Physical Description:
xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Summary:
"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.
Contents:
Cyberspace/meatspace
Meat
Promise
Fog
Doubt
Hope
Tree
Future
Prometheus
Memento
Copy
Philosophers
Maastricht
Kosher
Whale
Cannibals
Gathering/parting
Epimetheus.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes. Meat planet.
ISBN:
9780520295537
0520295536
OCLC:
1083673975
Publisher Number:
40029387456

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