Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food Volume 69

by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520295536
• ISBN13: 9780520295537
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"