Description: Further DetailsTitle: Meat PlanetCondition: NewEAN: 9780520379008ISBN: 9780520379008Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/13/2020Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 363gAuthor: Benjamin Aldes WurgaftLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Artificial Flesh and the Future of FoodISBN-10: 0520379004Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: California Studies in Food and CultureGenre: HistoryTopic: Food & Drink, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Technology & EngineeringRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Meat Planet
Title: Meat Planet
EAN: 9780520379008
ISBN: 9780520379008
Release Date: 10/13/2020
Release Year: 2020
Subtitle: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
ISBN-10: 0520379004
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Book Title: Meat Planet : Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Future Studies, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), History, Chemistry / Industrial & Technical
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Benjamin aldes Wurgaft
Item Length: 8.9 in
Book Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
