Article ID: CBB001023618

Real Artificial: Tissue-cultured Meat, Genetically Modified Farm Animals, and Fictions (2010)

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McHugh, Susan (Author)


Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Volume: 18
Pages: 181--197


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Ecocriticism and Biology”
Language: English

Although touted by promoters as the cutting edge of food science, meat produced in vitro (rather than from a whole animal) is emerging more directly from developments in fine art---more specifically, from the aesthetic experiments of Australian-based artists Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, who ask: What language do we have to describe the agency of tissue-cultured life? This essay begins to answer this question by tracing a tradition whereby bioengineered meat mediates complex environmental critiques in literary fiction over the past century, including Margaret Atwood's exemplary novel Oryx and Crake (2003), which depicts biotech industries producing three distinct kinds of "real artificial meat," all sourced in genetically modified animals.

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Authors & Contributors
Alexander Bogner
Kent H. Redford
Amalia Leguizamón
Anja Bauer
Hicks, Daniel J.
Marlene Gómez Becerra
Concepts
Biotechnology
Genetically modified foods (GMO)
Synthetic biology; bioengineering
Agriculture
Biology
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
France
South Korea
Singapore
Zambia
Argentina
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