This provocative book informs, inspires, and opens debates on cultured meat through an astonishing collection of visionary and respected contributors.

Each essay in this collection powerfully presents the latest research and opinion on 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 assessing the environmental sustainability of cell-cultured food production technologies. Also included is a thought-provoking foreword by Ira van Eelen, daughter of Willem van Eelen, godfather of cultured meat, co-founder and CEO of KindEarth.Tech, and co-founder of RESPECTfarms.

Michel Vandenbosch is Belgium's best-known animal activist and founded GAIA in 1992. Under his leadership, it has grown into the most influential animal welfare and rights organization in Belgium with more than 80,000 members. GAIA has largely contributed to obtaining unprecedented legislative measures and court decisions that have made a difference for large numbers of animals in various areas of animal exploitation. GAIA has been a board member of Eurogroup for Animals for many years. Michel's campaigns include animal suffering in slaughterhouses, horse racing, livestock markets, force-feeding for foie gras production, factory farming, animal testing and the fur trade. He is also one of the founders of the World Federation for Animals and a member of the Animal Welfare Advisory Council of the Minister of Animal Welfare in Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels.

Philip Lymbery is Global Chief Executive of Compassion in World Farming International, the leading environmental organization for farm animal welfare. He is chairman of Eurogroup for Animals, the Brussels-based umbrella body of Europe's leading animal welfare associations. And in 2021, Philip was a “Champion of the UN Food Systems Summit” and co-lead of the Summit's Sustainable Livestock Solutions Cluster. He is also a founding member of the World Federation for Animals, which represents the animal protection movement at the intergovernmental level. Philip is a respected author; his third book, Sixty Harvests Left: How to achieve a nature-friendly future, was published in 2022.