Meat planet : artificial flesh and the future of food
(eAudiobook)
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Published
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Audio, 2019.
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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Format
eAudiobook
Language
English
ISBN
9781494540531
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General Note
Downloadable eAudiobook.
General Note
Non fiction.
General Note
Duration: 10:08:00.
Participants/Performers
Read by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft.
Description
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.
Target Audience
Adult.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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