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Rethinking MEAT: Ethics, Practices, Politics. Organized by KLIMAFORSK collaboration project MEATigation: Towards sustainable meat-use in Norwegian food practices for climate mitigation. Supported by Norges Forskningsrådet. 

We propose that reality is not the sort of thing that is out there in the world waiting to be discovered by scientists but is instead performatively constituted. What we mean by something being performatively constituted borrows from drag. We suggest that the reality relied upon as the basis for experimentation and technological interventions exists as a performative project, and analyse the work of science as reality-drag. We posit that performing and achieving realness happens as part of drag, but also in scientific practice and in particular through devising scientific categories and concepts. For instance, science-drag is performed in the making of scientific kinds and categories that aim to capture the ontological structure of the world (kinding). Science-drag is also performed in the generation of scientific concepts from everyday ideas (founding). We explore these performances in the case of food and agriculture, especially in the generation of plant-based meats.