Food on Film is screening Meat the Future, a documentary about sustainably cultured meat by director Liz Marshall, on Tuesday 25 July at Exeter Phoenix.
The film examines the lab-grown meat industry, interviewing scientists and farmers on opposing sides of a debate over whether “clean meat” could be an ethical and environmental alternative to conventional meat production.
The screening will be introduced by Celia Plender, a University of Exeter researcher whose work focusses on grassroots food co-operatives.
After the film there will be a panel discussion chaired by Jess Fagin, a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter who researches sheep slaughter in English slaughterhouses.
Jess will be joined by Illtud Dunsford from Cellular Agriculture, a UK-based cultured protein company, Ben Wurgaft, author of Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food and Ben Wall, Professor of Nutritional Physiology at the University of Exeter.
Meat the Future is being screened as part of a series of films hosted by Food on Film in partnership with Exeter Food, a University of Exeter research network, and its MA Food Studies programme.
The series examines the ethical and environmental impact of the production of meat.
The previous screening in the series was Food for Thought, a documentary about meat and dairy farming in Cornwall, which was shown on Tuesday 11 July.
The series will conclude with several screenings of Chicken Run, an Aardman stop-motion claymation about a group of chickens attempting to flee the coop.
Meat the Future is at 6pm on Tuesday 25 July 2023 in Studio 74.
Tickets cost £8 (£5 concessions) and can be purchased via the Exeter Phoenix website.
