Clean Meat

How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World

By: Paul Shapiro, Yuval Noah Harari - introduction

Narrated by: George Newbern

Paul Shapiro gives you a “captivating” (John Mackey, former CEO of Whole Foods Market) front-row seat for the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—without the animals.

Since the dawn of Homo sapiens some quarter million years ago, animals have satiated our species’ desire for meat. But with a growing global popula­tion and demand for meat, eggs, dairy, leather, and more, raising such massive numbers of farm animals is woefully inefficient and takes an enormous toll on the planet, public health, and certainly the animals themselves.

But what if we could have our meat and eat it, too? The next great scientific revolution is underway—“a future where the cellular agricultural revolution helps lower rates of foodborne illness, greatly improves environmental sustainability, and allows us to continue to enjoy the food we love” (Kathleen Sebelius, former US Secretary of Health and Human Services).

Enter clean meat—real, actual meat grown (or brewed!) from animal cells—as well as other clean foods that ditch animal cells altogether and are simply built from the molecule up. Whereas our ancestors domesticated wild animals into livestock, today we’re beginning to domesticate their cells, leaving the animals out of the equation. From one single cell of a cow, you could feed an entire village. And “in this important book that could just save your life” (Michael Greger, MD, author of How Not to Die), the story of this coming second domestica­tion is anything but tame.

Game changing

I will be now doing tons of more research into where these companies are now and trying to figure out ways I can get involved in this amazing movement. I with I had a degree in molecular biology!

Perfect

Great book about the future of food and heroes in lab coats trying to save the environment, rain forests, and billions of lives.

Would you eat meat that is cleaner, healthier and better for our planet? It may even taste better. The only catch - it doesn't come from an animal. Would you drink milk that doesn't require cows to produce? Eggs that require no hens? Can I interest you in some Foie gras, perhaps? No geese involved.

According to Mr. Shapiro, we will soon be able to "eat meat, not animals."

Will we?

The Future of Food is Bright!

This is an incredible book for all vegans, effective altruists, and non-vegans interested in the future of food. Shapiro analyzes the leading companies in the industry & provides personal anecdotes that help readers better understand the mission & culture of each company.

Additionally, the audiobook reader does a fantastic job.

A True Remedy for Mother Earth

If we really want to have the most impact on stopping climate change, this is THE BOOK to read.

Excellent History of the Evolution of Clean Meat

I have been following 'clean meat' since it was called 'in vitro meat' in 2012. If you are at all curious about meat without slaughtering animals, this is the book for you. I feel Shapiro does an excellent job of explaining the science while providing thorough credit for all the pioneers who have contributed to this new field. I thought I knew all the contributors in this field and I still learned a lot. I was able to listen to this book in two days of almost straight listening.