Meat alternatives and the future of food

Seven years ago, scientists unveiled the first laboratory-created hamburger. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft explores the quest to generate sustainable proteins in the lab and the problems in our food system in his book, “Meat Planet.”

It hasn’t been a decade since a Dutch scientist introduced the first meatless burger. Benjamin Wurgaft looks at the past and future of meat alternatives in his book, “Meat Planet.” Credit: University of California Press