ABSTRACT

Lab-grown or ‘cultivated’ meat offers the opportunity to reduce animal suffering without needing to change our diets. In this paper, I examine the epistemic implications of this technological and dietary shift.

I argue that in the search for an alternative to factory-farmed meat/large-scale animal agriculture, we ought to be wary of so-called ‘epistemic traps’: technologies that further entrench epistemically problematic aspects of our current food system, and discourage us from imagining alternative food futures.