Brunel University London
Dr Neil Stephens is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at Brunel University London researching innovations in biology from a social science perspective. He is particularly interested in tissue engineering for food and medicine, particularly cell-based meat, and is currently studying the political implications of scaling these technologies up.
Apocalypse Cow: documentary's vision for the future of food could leave farming in the past
Jan 10, 2020 10:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
On the Channel 4 documentary Apocalyse Cow: How meat killed the planet, British environmentalist and vegan George Monbiot presented the UK as stripped of woodland by grass-eating sheep, crowded with the agricultural sprawl...
Meat grown from cells: companies clamour to put it on your plate
Oct 28, 2018 12:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Could this be the year that meat grown in vats rather than taken from animals reaches our plates? In the summer of 2017, San Francisco-based food company Just (formerly Hampton Creek), announced plans to put meat grown in...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India