Cultured Meat
When the idea of Cultured Meat
(or In vitro Meat) became news in 2005,
a lot of activists in the Animal Liberation/Animal Rights movement were not sure
how to response to it. The debate and controversy surrounding this issue exists to this day and
will probably get more talk time in the next few years as wider exposure
seems unavoidable considering the global food crisis and current environmental challenges (global warming, deforestation, species extinction, air and water pollution, topsoil erosion and resource scarcity).
A lot of the activists who tend to resist the idea of cultured meat are abolitionists who follow
Gary Francione's abolitionist approach and/or James LaVeck's superb work.
This website was designed mainly for them but not only for them.
It presents maybe a on the subject of cultured meat
and its primary goal is to urge every Animal Rights activist - abolitionist, Animal Welfare person
or any other animal advocate - to reconsider his views on cultured meat.
Some of its material
may seem harsh or insulting to readers who do not understand the logic behind Animal Rights & veganism.
If you are one of those readers: a) please keep in mind this "insulting" is nothing compared to the pain and suffering farm animals go through in factory farms;
b) we encourage you to watch Earthlings.
Health & Environment activists who acknowledge the importance of cultured meat
and stumbled upon this website might be more interested in New Harvest's website,
where the health & environmental aspects of meat-eating are being addressed at length.
To capture this introduction, we would like to emphasize one significant point that became clear to us over the years:
the less interest people have in resisting the idea of Animal Rights, the greater the chances of them accepting it.
In other words, the less a person exploits nonhumans in his personal life, the more chances of him willing to accept that using them as property is wrong.
When the self-interest is not there (animal testing in cosmetics, for example), the chances of Animal Rights groups to succeed are much higher;
because then only, the public (general speaking) manages to view moral issues in a fair and objective way.
Otherwise, moral or rational considerations are nowhere to be found and the repression mechanism works overtime
(more on this issue in this page).
We hope that one day vegan education will be the most affective way to promote abolition of animal exploitation.
That time is yet to come; first, we need to make sure there is no conflict of interests between the public and those whose interest does not count.
Continue by reading the Factors page ...