Artificial Meat (the Forum)

Lab-grown meat promises a future of burgers, meatballs, and even foie gras, without the side order of animal suffering and environmental damage. But is fake meat a real solution to these problems? And will its success lead to the extinction of farm animals? If lab-grown meat is the ethical option, how can we persuade consumers to overcome their aversion to it? In this Forum event, we’ll discuss the science, ethics, and meaning of artificial meat.

Speakers
Anat Pick, Reader in Film Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Mark Post, Professor of Vascular Physiology, Maastricht University
Adam Shriver, Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Applied Ethics and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities

Chair
Danielle Sands, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy; Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London

All welcome | Free to attend | First come, first served at the door