Cultured Meat

The sub-project „Clean Meat“ focuses on the production of meat based on animal stem cells within bioreactors.

The technology aims to solve the problematic relationship between the global meat consumption and its ethically as well as ecologically harmful consequences. It does so by uncoupling meat production from industrial livestock farming and the mass slaughtering of animals on the one side, and by radically reducing the related high resource consumption in terms of land, water, and carbon dioxide on the other. The technology is still under way with a prospected marketability in the following years.

Thus, „Clean Meat“ addresses the problematic modern relationship between humans and animals as well as humans and their ecological environment more generally, which therefore constitutes the analytical focus of the sub-project. Using a state-of-the-art triangulation of research methods including ethnographical field work, discourse analysis, and expert interviews the study is aiming at understanding how the innovators attend to these problems and process their innovations through communication and interaction with society.

The subproject is led by Clara Wieghorst. Until May 2022 the subproject was led by Sandra Matthäus.

If you are interested in this project, please do not hesitate to contact me: clara.wieghorst@hsw.tu-chemnitz.de.