Article ID: CBB717864659

Many Meats and Many Milks? The Ontological Politics of a Proposed Post-animal Revolution (2019)

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Today plant-based alternatives to animal-agricultural products are made available or developed alongside ‘cultured’ meat, and products utilising genetic modification. To proponents, this signifies the emergence of ‘cellular agriculture’ as a food-production field or the possibility of a ‘post-animal bioeconomy’: a way to safely and sustainably produce animal products without animals. Drawing on previous work on ontological politics enables acknowledging how these novel objects unsettle animal products’ ontological stability, thereby offering a practical case of how the world is multiply produced. An important emphasis within this tradition is the situated nature of reality-making practices. Consequently our analysis, focusing on different practices, sites and objects compared to influential studies of ontological politics, necessitates bringing in hitherto relatively unexplored political-economic relations and legal processes. As global processes and problem formulations, laboratories, and national or regional regulations come together to remake realities the ontological-political dynamics determining the fate of cellular agriculture or a post-animal bioeconomy becomes shaped by a combination of conflicts and budding collaborations between proponents of new technologies and established livestock interests. Understanding these dynamics requires tracing both how post-animal products reshape the world they are introduced into, and acknowledging the friction evident as reality-carrying objects leave their laboratories.

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Authors & Contributors
Stephens, Neil
Ruivenkamp, Martin
Warren, Wilson J.
Fotopoulou, Aristea
Cobbold, Carolyn Ann
Williams, Elizabeth A.
Concepts
Food and foods
Food industry and trade
Food science; food technology
Meat industry and trade
Agriculture
Science and technology, relationships
Time Periods
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Americas
United States
Western states (U.S.)
Midwestern states (U.S.)
Romania
Europe
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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