Here's Why Vegans Shouldn't Support Lab-Grown Meat
A Meat and Dairy Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM Sarina Farb, BornVegan.org
January 2022

A more holistic look at animal oppression and lab-grown meat as a solution makes it clear that vegans should not be supporting or pushing for this technology at all.

Lab-grown meat (also known as cultivated meat, in vitro meat, cell-based meat, and clean meat) is a novel biotech alternative to ‘traditional’ meat. It involves taking some cells/tissue from living animals and growing those cells into pieces of real animal flesh in a lab.

Proponents of lab-grown meat will tell you that as vegans and activists we have failed. They argue that the moral and ethical case against eating animals has not worked, as evidenced by the increasing number of animals globally that are raised and killed for food every year. Therefore, they say, we need novel technologies and innovation so that we can just replace or change the meat on people’s plates without them having to change their morals or diet.

The idea is that lab-grown meat will allow people to continue eating REAL MEAT but without factory farming and killing animals. Which at face value sounds kind of good right? Unfortunately it’s a flawed solution based on a very flawed premise.

When we step back and take a more holistic look at animal oppression and lab-grown meat as a solution, it becomes very clear that we as vegans should not be supporting or pushing for this technology at all.

Here are my 10 reasons why I don’t support lab-grown meat as a holistic and ethical vegan:

1. The premise behind the need for lab-grown meat is wrong
2. Lab-grown meat actively relies on animal exploitation and animal ingredients.
3. Lab-grown meat is speciesist and upholds the need to consume flesh
4. The free market and technology rarely solve moral problems in society.
5. Lab-grown meat is still animal protein and inherently unhealthy
6. Lab-grown meat is energy intensive to produce and not very sustainable.
7. Lab-grown meat is unlikely to be readily accepted by consumers without education and marketing.
8. Unknown potential long-term safety risks
9. Lab-grown meat is at odds with food sovereignty and will facilitate more corporate consolidation and control of our food supply
10. We already have the ideal food system solution – VEGANIC agriculture!

 

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