Bioethical considerations of cell-cultured meat.
- Author:
Chao WANG
1
;
Yuanfa LIU
2
;
Jingwen ZHOU
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: artificial meat; bioethics; cell culture meat; food safety
- MeSH: Animal Welfare; Animals; Food Safety; Humans; Meat; Meat Products
- From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2021;37(2):378-383
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: 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.
