Making and Eating Meat in/for/Against the Anthropocene

In vitro meat thus resonates with a century of science fiction scenarios, political visions, and scientific hopes about a world where meat is produced independently of animal bodies. Today, many researchers place significant anticipation in this industry, even seeing in vitro meat as the inescapable future of humanity (Bhat et al., 2015), or the logical conclusion of tissue culture research (Jönsson, 2016). Although it represents a radically new way of thinking about and producing meat (Verbeke et al., 2015), some see it as the logical evolution of the meat industry (Hocquette et al., 2015), given that the production capacity of conventional livestock farming has practically reached its limits (FAO, 2009, 2011). This evolution has been described, following hunting and livestock farming, as a new agricultural revolution, used by humans in meat production.