Global meat complex, new food technologies, sustainability: the perspective of religions on cultivated meat

Abstract

Concerns about the global meat complex make the debate on the production and consumption of cultivated meat particularly current, involving multiple actors and grafting onto broader reflections regarding climate change, the use of new technologies in the food sector, animal welfare, and the changed relationship between man and food. This novel food presents itself, on paper, as an optimal alternative for the consumer who, without drastically changing his diet, wants to adopt more responsible eating habits, but is, at present, no stranger to profiles of relative uncertainty, in particular, to healthiness for humans. It is therefore necessary to investigate the social impact of clean meat, since consumer acceptance depends on a series of ethical, ecological, economic, legal and, last but not least, religious factors