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Cultivated meat is a new technology that since the 2000s has been attracting the attention of academics, policy-makers and producers, all of whom see it as a viable answer to some challenges that conventional meat production and consumption raises. Beyond several critical issues concerning the production (use of culture medium, monitoring of the cell proliferation process, large-scale manufacturing of the product, etc.) some authors, mostly philosophers, are also raising a number of moral objections. In this paper I shall focus on three possible set of arguments: 1) the wisdom of repugnance; 2) the notion that nature would be endangered by a technology like cultivated meat; 3) the argument of cannibalism. In the concluding remarks, I will argue that we must keep both the biotechnological eschatology and the moral eschatology at a distance, the former claiming to solve the ethical crises of our age exclusively using biotechnology, the latter claiming to do without biotechnology altogether |
