The Fake Meat Thought Experiment

If faux animal products were qualitatively identical to actual animal products, would you make the switch?

Rowen Veratome
Letters From Twin Earth
4 min readSep 21, 2023

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Uncooked high-quality steak fillets on a metal platter, being prepared with salt
Photo by James Kern on Unsplash

It’s no secret: some people abhor food that was “created in a lab.” The unnaturalness of a thing made through human ingenuity is deemed suspect, either inherently, or because the products in question have yet to be tested through…

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Rowen Veratome
Letters From Twin Earth

They/them. Perpetual student. Recovering from PTSD. Writes philosophically, formally, poetically, playfully, politically, personally, with love, ad infinitum.