Background

Cultured meat forms part of the emerging field of cellular agriculture. Still an early stage field it seeks to deliver products traditionally made through livestock rearing in novel forms that require no, or significantly reduced, animal involvement. Key examples include cultured meat, milk, egg white and leather. Here, we focus upon cultured meat and its technical, socio-political and regulatory challenges and opportunities.

Scope and Approach

The paper reports the thinking of an interdisciplinary team, all of whom have been active in the field for a number of years. It draws heavily upon the published literature, as well as our own professional experience. This includes ongoing laboratory work to produce cultured meat and over seventy interviews with experts in the area conducted in the social science work.

Key Findings and Conclusions: Cultured meat is a promising, but early stage, technology with key technical challenges including cell source, culture media, mimicking the in vivo myogenesis environment, animal derived and synthetic materials, and bioprocessing for commercial scale production. Analysis of the social context has too readily been reduced to ethics and consumer acceptance, and whilst these are key issues, the importance of the political and institutional forms a cultured meat industry might take, must also be recognised, and how ambiguities shape any emergent regulatory system.

中文翻译：

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将养殖肉类推向市场：蜂窝农业中的技术，社会政治和法规挑战

背景

养殖肉形成了蜂窝农业新兴领域的一部分。它仍然是早期阶段的领域，它寻求以传统形式交付传统上通过畜牧业生产的产品，这些产品不需要或不需要动物的参与就可以大大减少。主要例子包括养殖肉，牛奶，蛋清和皮革。在这里，我们专注于养殖肉及其技术，社会政治和监管方面的挑战和机遇。

范围和方法

该论文报告了一个跨学科团队的想法，他们都活跃于该领域多年。它在很大程度上借鉴了已出版的文献以及我们自己的专业经验。这包括正在进行的生产培养肉的实验室工作，以及在社会科学工作中与该领域专家进行的70多次访谈。

主要发现和结论：养殖肉是一种有前途但早期的技术，其面临的主要技术挑战包括细胞来源，培养基，模拟体内肌生成环境，动物来源的合成材料以及用于商业规模生产的生物加工。对社会背景的分析很容易被归结为道德和消费者接受度，尽管这些都是关键问题，但也必须认识到养殖肉类行业可能采取的政治和体制形式的重要性，以及模糊性如何影响任何新出现的法规系统。