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Billion Dollar Burger

Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food

by Chase Purdy
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The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world.
The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, soil erosion, and more emissions than air travel, paper mills, and coal mining combined. It also, of course, depends on the slaughter of more than 60 billion animals per year, a number that is only increasing as the global appetite for meat swells.
But a band of doctors, scientists, activists, and entrepreneurs have been racing to end animal agriculture as we know it, hoping to fulfill a dream of creating meat without ever having to kill an animal. In the laboratories of Silicon Valley companies, Dutch universities, and Israeli startups, visionaries are growing burgers and steaks from microscopic animal cells and inventing systems to do so at scale—allowing us to feed the world without slaughter and environmental devastation.
Drawing from exclusive and unprecedented access to the main players, from polarizing activist-turned-tech CEO Josh Tetrick to lobbyists and regulators on both sides of the issue, Billion Dollar Burger follows the people fighting to upend our food system as they butt up against the entrenched interests fighting viciously to stop them.
The stakes are monumentally high: cell-cultured meat is the best hope for sustainable food production, a key to fighting climate change, a gold mine for the companies that make it happen, and an existential threat for the farmers and meatpackers that make our meat today.
Are we ready?

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    June 16, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9780525536956

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      • ISBN: 9780525536956
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    • English

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    • Booklist

      May 15, 2020
      Journalist Purdy traces the cell-cultured meat industry through the perspectives of key players: scientists, activists, lobbyists, entrepreneurs, and government regulators. For decades, the multi-billion-dollar meat industry has raised concerns related to environmental hazards. Purdy explores the development, challenges, and opportunities of cell-cultured meat, which is lab-grown using cells from live animals, and why this process can be a costly and complex venture. Taking readers from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong to Israel, Purdy brings a global perspective on how individuals and organizations are working to monitor, scale, and sustain this industry. Throughout the book, Purdy cites business reports and agricultural statistics to provide a greater context of these industries and draws on his conversations with important stakeholders, sharing their takes on cell-cultured meat. Readers interested in the restaurant and food industries, environmental economics, and food technology may find this fascinating and relevant to timely issues like environmental sustainability and global food systems.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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