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One-off Seminar
Beef burger, Beast burger & Labgrown burger
What is the future for meat?
By Vu Tai Anh, 3rd year student at Tembusu College
Recent attempts to advertise ‘fake meat’ (Beast burger) and controversies surrounding the advent of in-vitro meat (lab-grown burger) prompt reflection on what ‘real’ meat really is and what we value about eating it.
Is it about what ends up on our plate, and how it looks, smells, tastes? Or is it the pleasure in eating meat inextricably linked to knowledge and fantasies about where it comes from? What does it mean when one jovially says: ‘I did not climb up the food chain to eat veggies’?
Come to explore such questions in this interactive one-off seminar that combines ideas and insights from two Tembusu modules” the junior seminar on ‘Fakes’ taught by Dr Catelijne Coopmans and the IEM1 module ‘Eating right(s): The politics of food’ taught by Dr Anuradha Ramanujan.
27th January 2016, 5.45- 7.15pm
Reading Room, Tembusu College
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All are welcome – no prior background needed
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