About this episode

Vasile Stănescu discusses the misconceptions surrounding lab-grown meat and the implications for animal advocacy and social justice.

The uncritical adoption of 'humane', 'cage-free', 'free-range', and lab-grown meat by animal advocates, funded by effective altruism philanthropy and the animal agriculture industry, not only reproduces the myth that meat is normal, natural, and necessary, it represents an ultimate defeat for animals. Vasile Stănescu, animal liberation scholar exposes the 'humane' hoax and explains why the failure of many animal advocates to frame veganism as a social justice movement in solidarity with other social justice movements is sustaining and reproducing systems of oppression and exploitation of humans, animals, and nature. Highlights include: How parents and society teach us to repress the childhood trauma that's triggered when we learn about the animal suffering and death from eating animal products; Why the so-called 'humane', 'cage free', and 'free range' agriculture practices are a hoax funded by the animal agriculture industry that are even more harmful for the animals — both wild and domesticated — and the planet than the conventional factory farming systems they claim to replace; Moral philosopher Peter Singer's complicity in perpetuating these 'humane' myths, and the growing…

People in this episode

Guest: Vasile Stănescu

Topics covered

• lab-grown meat
• animal advocacy
• humane farming
• veganism
• social justice
• animal liberation

Keywords

• humane
• cage-free
• free-range
• animal suffering
• effective altruism
• welfarism
• Jevon's paradox

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