Because our spring quarter began with the start of the pandemic, our senior design class agreed on creating works surrounding the theme of "Cultural Vaccines and Outbreak Narratives". For my project, I created a website for a restaurant, The Labivore's Dilemma, that would exist in the future and sell unique, plant based meat dishes. A play on The Omnivore's Dilemma (which had a profound impact on me when I read it in high school), I conceptualized this restaurant as a way to address the increase in hate crimes and xenophobic discourse during the pandemic. I speculated that as technologies to develop meat alternatives becomes more advanced, soon there would not only be meat alternatives to beef, but other animals too. This would ideally help change the narrative around ethics surrounding consuming animals and detach stigmas against other cultures for their practices.

Feel free to check out the website I coded in HTML and CSS here.