Even Lab-Grown Meat Won’t Save Us From a ‘Terrible Reckoning’
Historically, meat consumption has driven violence, colonialism, and war. Will the stuff cultivated in a lab be any different?
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7 min readMar 30, 2020
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In Plato’s Republic, Socrates tells his fellow Athenian philosopher Glaucon that in order to feed the Greeks’ nascent appetite for meat — a luxury…