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Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future

Hope for Animals, Food Security, and the Environment

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Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future

By: Michel Vandenbosch, Philip Lymbery
Narrated by: Thomas Martin
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This provocative book informs, inspires, and opens debates about cultivated meat through an amazing collection of visionary and respected contributors. Each essay in this collection powerfully presents the latest research and opinions regarding its potential for solving our current planetary crises.

Contributors include Isha Datar of New Harvest, Chase Purdy, author of Billion Dollar Burger, and Hanna Tuomisto, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of environmental sustainability assessment of cell-cultured food production technologies. Also included is a thought-provoking foreword by Ira van Eelen, daughter of Willem van Eelen, the godfather of cultivated meat and cofounder and CEO of KindEarth.Tech and RESPECTfarms.

©2023 Michel Vandenbosch and Philip Lymbery (P)2025 Lantern Publishing & Media Agricultural & Food Sciences Environment Food Science Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science
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Listening to Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future, what comes through most clearly is the sense of cultivated meat as a systems-level response rather than a speculative novelty. The argument builds steadily, positioning cellular agriculture as a practical answer to food security, environmental pressure, and the ethical limits of industrial livestock, rather than as a futuristic indulgence.

The tone is confident but generally measured. Technical and regulatory challenges are acknowledged - scale, cost, and public acceptance are recurring themes - without tipping into either hype or fatalism. Ethical considerations around animal welfare and sustainability are treated as important, but not emotionally overstated, which works well in audio form.

At times the book’s faith in technological progress feels largely intact, and deeper scepticism is noted more than fully explored. Still, it leaves a clear impression: cultivated meat is framed not as a cure-all, but as an increasingly hard-to-ignore component of any realistic future food system.

A calm, convincing case for the future of meat

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