MEAT PLANET: ARTIFICIAL FLESH AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD

Book ID/图书代码： 13520019C00005

English Summary/英文概要： In 2013 a Dutch scientist unveiled the world’s first laboratory-created hamburger, and 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 research races 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.

Author Benjamin Wurgaft is neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat. Based on five years of fieldwork, Meat Planet reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, by examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually be the object of our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? The meat problem is not merely a problem of production. Like all problems in our food system, it is intrinsically social and political, and demands that we examine questions of justice and desirable modes of living in a shared and finite world.

With cultured meat not yet in supermarkets or restaurants, 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, the way we think about population and our fragile ecosystem’s capacity to sustain life. It argues that even if cultured meat does not “succeed,” it functions – much like science fiction – as a crucial mirror we can hold up to our contemporary fleshy dysfunctions.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人類對「肉慾」的不斷追求將可能會反噬人類的未來嗎？我們是否只是用另一種科技來解決某種科技導致的問題？現在的人類每一個新的世代都比上一代吃掉更多的肉類，肉類的議題至關重要且影響重大，就像我們食品系統中的所有問題一樣，它不僅僅是生產問題，它本質上是社會和政治上的問題，它也要求我們思考關於正義的問題以及在我們所共享的有限世界裡，什麼才是理想的生活方式。

本書作者Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft花費了五年的時間研究人造肉這個現象，在本書中，他既不擁戴支持，也不嚴厲批評，而是以一種中立客觀的角度，引領我們看到人造肉的爭議事實上遠超越了食物議題本身，甚至也與食慾、成長以及資本主義有關。 (Zoe)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft是一位作家和歷史學家，目前是麻省理工學院的人類學訪問學者。他曾任麻省理工學院的國家科學基金會博士後研究員，以及新社會研究學院的梅隆大學博士後研究員。他有關食品和其他主題的論文定期出現在《美食家》、《洛杉磯圖書評論》以及《刺猬評論》等刊物中。

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian, and currently a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at MIT. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research. His essays on food and other topics appear regularly in publications from Gastronomica to the Los Angeles Review of Books to the Hedgehog Review. He is @benwurgaft on Twitter.

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