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Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech’s Race for the Future of Food
Maybe someday
29
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
5/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Chase Purdy
Publisher:
Portfolio
Date:
June 16, 2020
The story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world.
What The Reviewers Say
... briskly paced and quietly bold.
This is Purdy’s first book, and he sometimes falls into journalistic clichés. His story teems with the occasional 'make-or-break' moment or a light bulb going off in someone’s head. But the upside is that his writing is always punchy and readable, even when he is explaining the complex and gruesome biology of growing a new piece of flesh from an old one..
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..
