The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media
The promised land? Exploring the future visions and narrative silences of cellular agriculture in news and industry media
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.04.002
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
R. Burton
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文献类型：
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作者：
R. Helliwell;R. Burton
细胞食品技术旨在将动物蛋白生产与动物体脱钩，并通过替代解决畜牧业对环境、伦理和人类健康的负面影响。这标志着与之前对农业生物技术的预期的重大决裂。如果细胞农业在技术和商业上取得成功，可能会产生深远的影响，但尚未成为公众或政治讨论的主题。其中包括从根本上改变人与自然的关系、破坏现有的粮食系统、土地利用模式、农村经济、环境变化的驱动因素以及陆地和水生生态系统的生物多样性。在本文中，我们探讨了主流新闻和行业媒体中细胞农业的环境和农村愿景、它们的争论和叙事沉默。这些沉默代表了预想的发展中未充分探索的问题、偶发事件和最终结果。我们的分析强调了预期的效率提升对于实现几个相互关联但又独立的积极环境愿景至关重要。值得注意的是，细胞农业将能够取代传统农业并养活未来，同时减少环境负担和土地使用压力。然而，这些愿景并未解决许多潜在后果。因此，我们探索这些叙事沉默。在此过程中，我们探索这些技术的创造性和破坏性潜力，特别强调它们对环境、农村和空间的影响。总之，我们确定并预测了这些技术对环境和农村政策的影响，需要进一步考虑、公众和政治讨论。
Cellular food technologies aim to decouple animal protein production from animal bodies and address the negative environmental, ethical, and human health implications of animal agriculture through its substitution. This marks a major rupture with previous expectations for agricultural biotechnology. If technically and commercially successful cellular agriculture could have far reaching effects that have yet to be the subject of concerted public or political discussion. These include, fundamentally altering human-nature relations, disrupting existing food systems, patterns of land use, rural economies, drivers of environmental change and biodiversity in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.In this paper we explore the environmental and rural visions of cellular agriculture in mainstream news and industry media, their contestation and the narrative silences. These silences represent the under- and un-explored questions, contingencies, and eventualities of envisioned developments. Our analysis highlights how anticipated efficiency gains are central to the realisation of several interlinked but separate positive environmental visions. Notably, that cellular agriculture will be able to replace conventional agriculture and feed the future whilst reducing environmental burdens and land use pressures. However, these visions leave many potential consequences unaddressed. We therefore explore these narrative silences. In doing so we explore the creative and destructive potential of these technologies with a specific emphasis on their environmental, rural, and spatial implications. In conclusion, we identify and anticipate environmental and rural policy implications stemming from these technologies that require further consideration, public and political discussion.
影响因子：
30.7
作者：
O'Neill, Saffron;Williams, Hywel T. P.;Boykoff, Maxwell
通讯作者：
Boykoff, Maxwell