Vegan rejects the concept of "clean meat"

Cultured Meat Confusion: The Answer Is Veganism And Always Has Been

The cultured meat movement - or the "clean meat movement" as they like to call it - seems to be muddying the already troubled waters surrounding our societal perception of animals.

ecorazzi.com

In this strongly-worded editorial, vegan advocate Ben Frost rejects the idea that lab-grown meat products could ever be "clean" meat -- the buzzword promoted by enthusiasts. Basically he asserts the purist position that even the use of cells extracted from a living animal still represent an unethical attitude:

it essentially does nothing but take the public down a diversion that will ultimately still lead to the same place – the belief that animals are things for human use.

Along the way he introduces the arresting image of "furniture ... made from cultured human skins". I'm guessing he doesn't know there is at least one company working on lab-grown leather, although so far as I know, they haven't proposed starting with human skin cells. OK, now I'm creeped out.