Abstract
Narratives of cellular agriculture, or food technologies using cell cultivation to produce agricultural products such as cultured meat, promise sustainable, ethical alternatives as well as solutions to global food challenges. Although cultured meat is unavailable to consumers, people have formed opinions about it on the basis of media coverage. Drawing on studies of the meaning system of food and the media publicity surrounding cultured meat, the aim is to analyze the emerging meanings of cultured meat in Finnish online news comments (n = 662). The comments were examined using qualitative content analysis and the results were utilized to construct an emerging meaning system for cultured meat. The results indicate that this system draws from nine themes and three aggregate categories, based on the following questions: Why is cultured meat necessary (environmental, animal wellbeing and healthiness considerations)? What are the anticipated product characteristics (naturalness, potential risks and sensory qualities)? How is cultured meat expected to influence societies (the role of actors, decision-making and inequities caused by cultured meat)? The uncertainties of these issues have led to conflicting interpretations, which prevent the achievement of a shared definition of cultured meat and complicate the establishment of cultured meat as an accepted food.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Food, Culture, and Society |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 591-620 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| ISSN | 1552-8014 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Fields of Science
- 5200 Other social sciences
- Cellular agriculture
- Cultured meat
- Meaning system
- Online news comments
- Qualitative content analysis
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Ryynänen, T., El Wali, M., Toivanen, A. I., Heinonen, V., Hyyryläinen, T., Järviö, N., Moritz, J. & Tuomisto, H.
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Ryynänen, T., & Toivanen, A. I. (2023). Hocus-pocus tricks and moral progressions: The emerging meanings of cultured meat in online news comments. Food, Culture, and Society, 26(3), 591-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2027688
Ryynänen, Toni ; Toivanen, Anni Ilona. / Hocus-pocus tricks and moral progressions : The emerging meanings of cultured meat in online news comments. In: Food, Culture, and Society. 2023 ; Vol. 26, No. 3. pp. 591-620.
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Ryynänen, T & Toivanen, AI 2023, 'Hocus-pocus tricks and moral progressions: The emerging meanings of cultured meat in online news comments', Food, Culture, and Society, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 591-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2027688
Hocus-pocus tricks and moral progressions: The emerging meanings of cultured meat in online news comments. / Ryynänen, Toni; Toivanen, Anni Ilona.
In: Food, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2023, p. 591-620.
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Ryynänen T, Toivanen AI. Hocus-pocus tricks and moral progressions: The emerging meanings of cultured meat in online news comments. Food, Culture, and Society. 2023;26(3):591-620. Epub 2022 Jan 27. doi: 10.1080/15528014.2022.2027688
