Eating ourselves out of industrial excess? Degrowth, multi-species conviviality and the micro-politics of cultured meat

To address the relationship between crises of capitalist growth and democratic politics, this paper discusses notions degrowth conviviality. Both concepts are often interpreted as making similar proposals in response to questions environmental transformation. However, they bear on different strands critique. While criticizes momentum accumulation, conviviality originates search for alternatives instrumental use technologies industrial societies. Although these two rationalities predominantly go hand development modern societies, sometimes conflict strategies required deal with their consequences. Therefore, differences should not be obscured. Instead using an ethical or moral fashion normative claims directed at some diffuse agency states, companies people, argues a thorough examination issues propositions overcome crisis from perspective materialist science technology studies. Since one key factor here is level global production consumption meat, turns toward controversial attempt break new ground meat production: vision artificially producing laboratory. Lab-grown, cultured provides powerful case study exploring political challenges post-growth all more so animal welfare interspecies addressed well. By taking closer look role animals proposed solutions consumption, complementarity such can questioned, light shed inherent implications technological innovations.