Gnawing doubt: eating animals and the promise of cultured meat

L. Ursin

Gnawing doubt: eating animals and the promise of cultured meat

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L. Ursin

L. Ursin Department of Philosophy, Norwegian University of Technology and Science, 7491 Trondheim, Norway; lars.ursin@ntnu.no

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Pages:: 225–229

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867844_038

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Envisioned technologies can make and be motivated by ethical spaces. In this paper I will explore the ethical spaces that motivates and are made by the emerging technology of cultured meat. Proponents of cultured – or in vitro – meat argue that it has the potential to present a solution to several of perceived problems of factory farming: Animal welfare issues, environmental concerns, and global access to meat products. Critics of in vitro meat technology argue that the solution it introduces just will aggravate an alienation from farm animals caused by factory farming. In the eyes of the critic, cultured meat would be a technological quick fix that just eases the consequences of a flawed way relating to both food and animals. In this paper I will use the technology of cultured meat as a tool to analyze the moral relation between animals as fellow creatures versus animals as food.

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The ethics of consumption

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Print Publication Date:: 01 Nov 2013

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