Artist

The Deathless Diet

A life-size cow grown from cultivated meat.

Art Cultivated meat Tel Aviv
Front render of the cultivated cow
01. Problem

Industrial meat runs on death.

It kills cheaply, wastes land, and harms the body. We became very efficient at killing. Hunger stayed. So did the cruelty. This is the old diet. We can quit it.

80B+land animals killed for food each year
14.5%of global greenhouse gas emissions from livestock
30%of fresh water used by animal agriculture
02. The piece

It looks like something died here. Nothing did.

A full-size cow with no skin. Only red, raw muscle over a 3D printed skeleton. The muscles grow in molds from cultivated cells. Then they return to the bones. The body is sealed in a transparent tank that keeps the meat from rotting.

Not a trophy of death. A proof of concept for non-slaughter.

Side view of the cultivated cow

Side view

Angle view of the cultivated cow

Angle view

03. How it works

Cells, molds, skeleton, tank.

The cow is made in four stages.

Step 1

Grow

Cells are cultivated in a lab from animal tissue.

Step 2

Shape

Molds form muscle fibers into cuts.

Step 3

Assemble

A 3D printed skeleton holds the muscle in place.

Step 4

Seal

Epoxy and an inert tank stop decay.

04. The language I borrow

Same aesthetic. Opposite meaning.

H

Damien Hirst

His vitrines, like the shark in 1991, preserved death as spectacle. This cow preserves non-cruelty.

G

Lady Gaga

Her meat dress in 2010 was provocation. This cow uses the same shock to say the opposite.

I speak their language to reject their message.

05. Why now

The lab is becoming the farm.

Cultivated meat is moving from science to plate. Aleph Farms produced the first approved cultivated beef in Israel. The sector has raised billions and is building real factories.

AlephFirst approved cultivated beef in Israel
$400M+Raised by UPSIDE Foods
FutureFuture Meat among leading producers
06. Contact

Let fear turn into wonder.

A person at peace with what feeds them is harder to lie to, and freer to change.

Andrii Gardu

Let's collaborate.

Reach out to me here → hi@andriigardu.com

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