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Critical Perspectives on Cultured Meat

Capitalism, Technology, and Meat

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-041-27340-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungstermin: 14.01.2027
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. Januar 2027

This book explores cultured and lab-grown meat, challenging the widespread narrative that these products are inherently ethical and sustainable alternatives to industrial animal agriculture.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars—from communication studies, philosophy, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and critical animal studies—this volume examines the promises surrounding cultured meat. Each chapter presents a distinct critique, taking up issues such as the techno-utopian framing of these products as inevitable progress, the role of capitalism in shaping the technology, greenwashing by corporate advocates, the gendered dimensions of cultured meat, and the ways these technologies can reinforce speciesism and perpetuate harm to animals. While the contributors approach the topic from diverse perspectives, they share a commitment to interrogating the unexamined assumptions surrounding cultured meat and to fostering a more politically engaged dialogue about the future of animal agriculture in the face of ecological crisis. The chapters do not uniformly oppose cultured meat, but they subject its promises to critical scrutiny.

This book will appeal to students and scholars of food studies, the environmental humanities, animal studies, and critical science and technology studies, as well as to a broader audience of readers eager to explore the ethical, environmental, political, and economic dimensions of cultured meat.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781041273400
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-041-27340-0
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Erscheinungstermin: 14.01.2027
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2027
  • Serie: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Seiten: 248
  • Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Foreword Preface Introduction: The Case Against Lab-Grown Meat Section 1: Ethics 1. Cellular Agriculture: The Myth of A Meat 2. Cultured Meat as Quantum Ethics: On Relativism and Universalism 3. Meat Reimagined, Anthropocentrism Reaffirmed: Ecomodernism, Moral Hazards, and Cultured Meat Section 2: Animals and Veganism 4. Interrogating Animal Welfare Claims of Cultured Meat Proponents 5. Meat without Bodies: Ontological Transformations and the Politics of Cellular Agriculture 6. Impartial Anthropocentrism? The Minimization of Vegan Perspectives in the BBC's Coverage of "Lab-Grown Meat" 7. Bringing Home the Bacon: Meat-Eating Realism, Capitalism, and the Myth of Lab-Grown Meat Section 3: Political Economy 8. Cultured Meat and the Politics of Continuity 9. Political Economic Challenges to the Simplistic "Just and Sustainable Transition" Claims of Cultured Meat Advocates 10. The Cultured Meat Mirage: Who Really Stands to Profit? 11. Animal Capitalism by Any Other Name: Cultured Meat on the Abundance Agenda 12. The Cultured Meat "Solution:" Perpetuating the Oppressive Ideologies of Growthism, Human Supremacy, and Technological Fundamentalism Section 4: Gender and Debate 13. Men, Masculinities, and Cultured Meat: A Critical Examination 14. Considering the Third Option: A Conversational Debate on Animal Agriculture, Veganism, and the Potential of Cultured Meat Conclusion: Against Solutions Without Liberation