Chase Purdy
Auteur van Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
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This author buys into the premise that cell-cultured meat—his term of choice used for chemically- and biologically-made meats—will help humanity. It will aid us to both stop destroying all life on the planet and end animal suffering.
Naturally, most carnivores won’t eat meat if they’d have to kill it themselves. Also, if philosophy and empathy were to come into play, we wouldn’t allow animals to be killed en masse, as though it’s a must to keep humanity alive.
Purdy touches on ethics and philosophy at times during this book, mainly when quoting CEOs and other big shots that run nouvelle faux-cuisine business, but not in questioning the ethics that permeate the lovely words about the best for humanity, etc.
The protagonists in this book are capitalist companies (that are run via fascist method). Just look at the list of investing parties:
What is interesting is to see grassroots movements cause ruckus against the corporate establishment:
However, let’s look at that clearly: JUST is a company that is driven by money. The people who were helping JUST to regale against Unilever did so while pushing a company that might simply get bought by Unilever or push an agenda similar to theirs in a minute. We’ll see.
Ultimately, this book was a quick read. The author is good at managing paragraphs that are easily read but the book didn’t make for rapacious reading. If I were forced to concatenate what this book is about, I’d say it’s a simple-minded, drawn-out marketing blurb for the mechanics behind trying to create food that looks like it’s animals or made by animals; eating animals and what they create is mainly bad and, yes, the world will go under if some of us don’t find alternatives, but I miss the answers to my many whys, which is somewhere that the book 'Eat Like You Care: An Examination of the Morality of Eating Animals', by Gary L. Francione and Anna Charlton, went a long way with. I’ll remember this book like reading innocuous and glib ads.… (meer)