细胞培养肉的生物伦理学思考

近年来,为了解决人类社会发展和环境资源的矛盾日益突出的问题,人造肉越来越多的进入人们的视野。通常所说的人造肉,可以分为植物蛋白肉和细胞培养肉。其中植物蛋白肉已经逐步开始商业化,细胞培养肉采用动物细胞进行培养,与真实肉制品更为接近。文中在分析细胞培养肉本质基础上,探讨细胞培养肉对肉类生产行业、消费者群体以及人类未来可持续发展的积极意义。在生物伦理学的视角下,研发和生产细胞培养肉有助于保障人类社会的可持续发展、提升动物福利、减少资源需求、改善肉制品营养功能,并为其他行业的发展提供新的增长点。此外,对于细胞培养肉生产涉及的食品安全、技术滥用、技术监管层面上的伦理风险提出进行了深入思考,希望能从生物伦理学的层面为人造肉行业的可持续发展提供参考。

Bioethical considerations of cell-cultured meat

In recent years, to solve the increasingly prominent problem of the contradiction between human social development and environmental resources, artificial meat has appeared in public view more and more. Generally speaking, the artificial meat can be divided into vegetable protein meat and cell cultured meat. Among them, vegetable protein meat has gradually begun to be commercialized, and cell cultured meat is cultured with animal cells, which is more similar to the real meat. Based on the analysis of the essence of cell cultured meat, we explore the positive significance of cell cultured meat technology for the meat production industry, consumer groups, and the sustainable development of mankind in the future. From the perspective of bioethics, the research, development and production of cell cultured meat can help ensure the sustainable development of human society, improve animal welfare, reduce resource demand, improve the nutritional function of meat products, and provide new growth points for the development of other industries. In addition, the ethical risks of food safety, technology abuse and technical supervision involved in cell cultured meat production are put forward for deep consideration, hoping to provide reference for the sustainable development of artificial meat industry from the perspective of bioethics.