This argument builds on ethical and political arguments around cell ag going back to Hopkins & Dacey’s agenda-setting 2008 article. https://t.co/OAzppoU8zO
OBVIOUSLY that’d be the best outcome, but it’s also not happening & likely not gonna happen. The promise of cell ag is overcoming this intransigence. This is best captured in this analysis that came out 5 years before the first cell-based burger: https
@_lindashi @aldatweets Individually or as a political project? The question is really one of feasibility and minimizing switching costs for consumers who have been trained by culture, value chains, etc. to consume a particular (very impactful diet). http
Ok, another social science paper. This has become the classic go-to paper on the ethical argument for cultured meat. ‘Vegetarian meat: Could technology save animals and satisfy meat eaters?’ by Hopkins & Dacey (2008). https://t.co/H1zpLLHZ8t #NeilForNH