IN VITRO ME
How far are you willing to go to continue eating meat?

As global meat production approaches its environmental limits, In Vitro ME explores how far we are willing to go to sustain our appetite. Meat production is resource-intensive, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, land degradation, and excessive water use. Cultured meat is often proposed as a solution—but what if we no longer relied on animals, but instead turned to our own bodies?

In Vitro ME proposes a wearable bioreactor in the form of a jewel that cultivates human muscle tissue directly on the wearer’s body. Connected to the vascular system, it uses the bloodstream to supply oxygen and nutrients, while body heat supports the growth process—transforming the body into a site of production. The resulting “personal meat” becomes a direct translation of one’s physiology into flesh—an unsettling embodiment of you are what you eat.

By collapsing the distance between production and consumption, the project exposes the true cost of eating meat. If you consume flesh grown from your own body, is it cannibalism—or simply the most honest form of meat consumption?

In Vitro ME invites reflection on sustainability, identity, and the limits of human adaptation.