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Author Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes, author.

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

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  664.929 WURGAFT    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Series California studies in food and culture
California studies in food and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-237) and index.
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.
Subject Meat substitutes.
Artificial foods.
Meat industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Artificial foods. (OCoLC)fst00817216
Meat substitutes. (OCoLC)fst01013338
Other Form: Online version: Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes. Meat planet. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520968264 (DLC) 2019004418
ISBN 9780520295537 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0520295536 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780520968264 ebook and epdf
Standard No. 40029387456
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