Problematic Proteins

How to offend everyone with boundary-crossing steak and nuggets

In 2013 13ya , in a dutch cellular engineering lab just outside of Utrecht, pharmacologist Mark Post produced a piece of meat https://www.new-harvest.org/mark_post_cultured_beef without killing an animal. That’s the short version of the story. For the meaty details take a look at my illustrated notes on the book Meat Planet Meat Planet: The Illustrated Notes Visualising the cultural narratives around cultured meat This is terribly impressive. But it also splatters a gigantic can of worms across our definition of “meat.” And by extension the entire food pyramid. What is meat without a dead anim

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