The Clean Meat Hoax website.
John Sanbonmatsu edits and curates the website for the "Clean Meat Hoax"-- an informal group of animal rights scholars and activists concerned about the ways in which cellular or laboratory-grown meats are being used to attack animal advocacy and to strengthen the meat industry's long-term strategy of creating a diverse "protein market" that includes meat from live animals.
Cellular Meat serves as a distraction from the fundamental issues, papering over the problem of human mass violence against animals, and obscuring the urgent need for a plant-based human diet.
John Sanbonmatsu edits and curates the website for the "Clean Meat Hoax"-- an informal group of animal rights scholars and activists concerned about the ways in which cellular or laboratory-grown meats are being used to attack animal advocacy and to strengthen the meat industry's long-term strategy of creating a diverse "protein market" that includes meat from live animals.
Cellular Meat serves as a distraction from the fundamental issues, papering over the problem of human mass violence against animals, and obscuring the urgent need for a plant-based human diet.
Artwork of Empathy:
The Paintings of Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu.
John Sanbonmatsu is executor of the art estate of his father, Yoshiro (1924-2017). Working broadly in the modernist traditions of social satire, muralism, and “agitprop” aesthetics, Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu's art offers sardonic commentary on an array of concerns, from war and US interventionism in the Third World, to the plight of Native Americans, the AIDS crisis, racism, and human rights abuses in China and Indonesia. Among the many artistic and cultural influences on his style and sensibility are Diego Rivera and other Mexican muralists, Francisco Goya, Bertold Brecht, American social realist painters and photojournalists (e.g., Jacob Ris and Walker Evans), Cubism (see “From Isseis and Nisseis”), and Sergei Eisenstein's montage theory ("Gate of Heavenly Peace")--to name but a few.
The Paintings of Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu.
John Sanbonmatsu is executor of the art estate of his father, Yoshiro (1924-2017). Working broadly in the modernist traditions of social satire, muralism, and “agitprop” aesthetics, Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu's art offers sardonic commentary on an array of concerns, from war and US interventionism in the Third World, to the plight of Native Americans, the AIDS crisis, racism, and human rights abuses in China and Indonesia. Among the many artistic and cultural influences on his style and sensibility are Diego Rivera and other Mexican muralists, Francisco Goya, Bertold Brecht, American social realist painters and photojournalists (e.g., Jacob Ris and Walker Evans), Cubism (see “From Isseis and Nisseis”), and Sergei Eisenstein's montage theory ("Gate of Heavenly Peace")--to name but a few.
Performance: Magic and Mentalism
Under the stage name Magician Méliès, John Sanbonmatsu performs award-winning magic and mentalism as a part-time professional magician in Massachusetts. John was mentored by the New York-based magician Matias Letelier and is a former member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. In 2023, his magic business was the recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Cultural Sector Recovery Grant.
Under the stage name Magician Méliès, John Sanbonmatsu performs award-winning magic and mentalism as a part-time professional magician in Massachusetts. John was mentored by the New York-based magician Matias Letelier and is a former member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. In 2023, his magic business was the recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Cultural Sector Recovery Grant.