Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a Visiting Scholar with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Anthropology. His books include Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food and Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt.
Distance can breed ignorance of the ecosystems and individual animal lives that feed us.
If we succeed in growing meat, we will do more than change human subsistence strategies forever.
Criticism is a kind of ordinary intellectual life.