2030年实验室养殖火鸡将上圣诞餐桌
Christmas turkey will be grown in a lab by 2030, say scientists
In 1931, Winston Churchill predicted that within 50 years the world would "escape the absurdity" of raising a whole chicken on farm and instead grow parts in lab.
1931年,英国首相温斯顿•丘吉尔曾预言,50年内,人类将不需在农场里"荒谬"地养殖整鸡,而是在实验室里养殖出鸡的各个部位.
Now scientists are predicting that his vision will come to pass within the next 15 years, with the first lab-grown turkey gracing Christmas tables by 2030.
而今科学家预测,丘吉尔的设想将在15年内成真——到2030年底前,实验室里养的火鸡肉将首次出现在圣诞餐桌上.
Paul Mozdziak, professor of poultry science at North Carolina State University, is confident that in the future meat will be grown in 5,000 gallon drums and factory farming will be replaced by large scale "cellular agriculture".
北卡罗来纳州立大学家禽学教授保罗•莫兹达爱克信心满满地认为,动物肉将可在5000加仑大的圆桶内养殖,工厂化养殖也将为大规模的"细胞农业"所取代.
"Years from now, when people are in the grocery story trying to decide if they want to buy traditional versus cultivated meat, I am 100 percent sure that culture meat is going to be just as cheap, if not cheaper," Prof Mozdziak told MIT Technology Review.
莫兹达爱克教授告诉《麻省理工大学科技评论》："我百分之百确定,多年以后,人们在杂货店里犹豫要买传统肉还是培养肉时,就算培养肉没比传统肉便宜,二者价格也至少会持平."
Although the idea of biotech companies growing meat in a lab might seem ethically dubious, it has won the backing of environmentalists and animal rights campaigners who say it would reduce the reliance on battery animals and save resources.
尽管生物科技公司在实验室培养肉类似乎存在伦理争议,但却得到了环保主义者和动物权益倡导者的支持,他们认为,培养肉类既能减轻人类对机械化饲养动物的依赖,又能节约能源.
Livestock farming has the biggest carbon footprint of any food and producing beef in vitro could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent.
畜牧业是所有食物产业中碳足迹最大的,通过体外培养的方式生产牛肉能减少90%的温室气体排放.
