BENJAMIN ALDES WURGAFT | MEAT PLANET | ARTIFICIAL FLESH AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD

This week on the podcast, writer and historian Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft joins us to talk about Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food, his new book on the quest to generate meat in the lab—a substance sometimes called “cultured meat”—and what it means to imagine that this is the future of food.

The topics of Ben's books, essays, and criticism range from the history of philosophy to contemporary food culture, with stops along the way for coffee and the history of the café, the history of colleges and universities, and laboratory-grown meat and the future of food.

Links:

Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food -- https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379008/meat-planet

Ben's website -- https://benwurgaft.org/