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Lab‐Grown Meat And Veganism: A Virtue‐Oriented Perspective, Carlo Alvaro
Lab‐Grown Meat And Veganism: A Virtue‐Oriented Perspective, Carlo Alvaro
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The project of growing meat artificially represents for some the next best thing to humanity. If successful, it could be the solution to several problems, such as feed- ing a growing global population while reducing the environmental impact of raising animals for food and, of course, reducing the amount and degree of animal cruelty and suffering that is involved in animal farming. In this paper, I argue that the issue of the morality of such a project has been framed only in terms of the best conse- quences for the environment, animals, and humans, or in terms of deontic princi- …