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Neil Stephens, Clemens Driessen and Alexandra Sexton
Tuesday 26th April 2016 – 4:00pm
Committee Rooms, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University

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In recent years the idea of cultured or ‘in vitro’ meat seems to have become more and more real. The public announcement and consumption of the first hamburger made from cells cultured in a laboratory stirred global interest, whereby for many it is unclear what to think of this category crushing new object. The promise of environmentally friendly meat without the need to kill animals (a few would merely suffer the inconvenience of a small biopsy) is broadly appealing. Imagining to actually eat it is something else, whereas contemplating how this technology would change our landscape and culture confronts us with the realities of current meat production and forces many to examine their moral experiences and political positions.

Neil Stephens (Sociology, Brunel University) and Clemens Driessen (Philosophy/Geography Wageningen University, the Netherlands) will interactively discuss the promises, the realities and the public responses to this idea that aims to drastically change existing meat cultures and landscapes. With commentary by Alexandra Sexton (Geography, Kings College London).

Followed by drinks and an in vitro meat performance by Laura Colebrooke and Mara Miele (Cardiff University)

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