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์‹คํ—˜์‹ค์—์„œ ์ž๋ž€ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ, ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก: ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ๋„ ๊ณง ๋งˆํŠธ์—์„œ ๋ณผ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค...

by Dom๐Ÿฅบ 2025. 2. 11.

 

 ๊ทผ๋ž˜ ๋‰ด์Šค์—์„œ "์‹คํ—˜์‹ค์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์Šˆํผ๋งˆ์ผ“์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค"๋Š” ์†Œ์‹์„ ์ ‘ํ•œ ์  ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก(cultured meat) ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์€ ๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ์„ธํฌ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ—˜์‹ค์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์–‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋กœ, ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ถ•์‚ฐ์—… ์—†์ด๋„ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ณผํ•™ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹์ƒํ™œ, ํ™˜๊ฒฝ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€์— ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์ด๋ž€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€?

 

 ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์€ ๋™๋ฌผ์˜ ์„ธํฌ(๊ทผ์œก ์„ธํฌ, ์ง€๋ฐฉ ์„ธํฌ ๋“ฑ)๋ฅผ ์‹คํ—˜์‹ค์—์„œ ์˜์–‘์†Œ์™€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ธ์ž๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐฐ์–‘ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋กœ, ๋™๋ฌผ์„ ๋„์ถ•ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ ๋„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ์‹ํ’ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๋™๋ฌผ์„ ๋„์ถ•ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ ๋„ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์—์„œ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์ถ•์‚ฐ์—…๊ณผ๋Š” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก ์ƒ์šฉํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€๋œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ, ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” 2023๋…„ 6์›”, ๋†๋ฌด๋ถ€(USDA)๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฐ์–‘ ๋‹ญ๊ณ ๊ธฐ ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ์Šน์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์‹ฑ๊ฐ€ํฌ๋ฅด๋Š” 2020๋…„ ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ›„ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ ˆ์Šคํ† ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์ œํ•œ๋œ ์†Œ๋งค์ ์—์„œ ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์€ ์ ์  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ์ƒ์—…ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฐฌ๋ฐ˜ ์ž…์žฅ

 

์ฐฌ์„ฑ ์ž…์žฅ

 

1. ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ

  • ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์€ ์ถ•์‚ฐ์—… ๋Œ€๋น„ ์˜จ์‹ค๊ฐ€์Šค ๋ฐฐ์ถœ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์ ๊ณ , ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ํ† ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2. ๋™๋ฌผ ๋ณต์ง€ ํ–ฅ์ƒ

  • ๋™๋ฌผ์„ ๋„์ถ•ํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ ๋™๋ฌผ ํ•™๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์œค๋ฆฌ์  ์†Œ๋น„๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. ์‹๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ

  • ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ธ๊ตฌ์™€ ๊ธฐํ›„ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์‹๋Ÿ‰ ๋ถ€์กฑ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4. ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผ ์œ„์ƒ

  • ์ „์—ผ๋ณ‘(์˜ˆ: ์กฐ๋ฅ˜๋…๊ฐ, ๊ตฌ์ œ์—ญ) ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ๋‚ฎ๊ณ , ํ•ญ์ƒ์ œ์™€ ์„ฑ์žฅ ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ์‹ํ’ˆ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์ž…์žฅ

 

1. ๋†’์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋น„์šฉ

  • ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์€ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ์žˆ์–ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋†’์•„ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2. ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ธ์‹

  • "์ธ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ"๋ผ๋Š” ์ธ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€๊ฐ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ํ’ˆ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์„ค๋“ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

3. ์ „ํ†ต ์ถ•์‚ฐ์—…๊ณผ์˜ ์ถฉ๋Œ

  • ์ถ•์‚ฐ์—… ์ข…์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค์€ ์ƒ๊ณ„ ์œ„ํ˜‘์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฐœ์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์™€ ๊ณ ์šฉ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

4. ๊ทœ์ œ ๋ฐ ๋ฒ•์  ๋ฌธ์ œ

  • ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์€ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹ํ’ˆ ๊ทœ์ œ ์ฒด๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๋กœ, ๊ฐ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ, ํ‘œ์‹œ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

 

๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก ์ƒ์šฉํ™”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š”?

 

 ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์ด ์ƒ์šฉํ™”๋˜๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์กด ์ถ•์‚ฐ์—…์€ ํฐ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฒช๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๋™๋ฌผ ๊ฐœ์ฒด ์กฐ์ ˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ณผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ•์‚ฐ์šฉ ๋™๋ฌผ์„ ์•ผ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ๋ ค๋ณด๋‚ผ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„์— ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„๋Œ€ ๊ฐ€์ถ•์€ ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ์˜ ๊ณต์ƒ ์†์—์„œ ์ง„ํ™”ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์•ผ์ƒ์—์„œ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ƒ์กดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ฐ€์ถ•์€ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๊ตฌ์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์ด ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์œ„์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ ์ง€๋Š” ์•„์ง ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ˆ˜์š”, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐœ์ „, ๊ทœ์ œ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

 

๊ฒฐ๋ก : ๋ณ€ํ™” ์†์˜ ๊ณต์กด์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ

 

 ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์€ ์‹๋Ÿ‰ ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ๋ณดํ˜ธ, ๋™๋ฌผ ๋ณต์ง€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ช…๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์ค‘ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ , ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ , ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋„์ „์„ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ถ•์‚ฐ์—…๊ณผ์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง€์‹๋“ค์„ ์ ‘ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ฌ ๋ณ€ํ™”์— ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ž์—ฐ์œก์ด๋“  ๋ฐฐ์–‘์œก์ด๋“  ์†Œ๋น„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ๋ณด์žฅ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ถ€๋‚˜ ํŠน์ • ์ง‘๋‹จ์ด ํŠน์ • ์ƒํ’ˆ์˜ ์†Œ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ง๊ฐ„์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•์š”ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š๋„๋ก, ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๋‘ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋œจ๊ณ  ๊ฐ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณต์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋•Œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

 

 

 

 

์•„๋ž˜๋Š” ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ์“ด ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค...๐Ÿ˜‹

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lab-Grown Meat, Cultured Meat: Coming to a Supermarket Near You?

 

 

 

 Have you come across recent news about "lab-grown meat hitting supermarket shelves"? This is the story of cultured meat. Cultured meat, made by cultivating animal cells in a lab, offers a way to produce meat without relying on traditional livestock farming. Beyond being a technological breakthrough, it has the potential to revolutionize our eating habits, protect the environment, and reshape ethical standards.

 

 

What Is Cultured Meat?

 Cultured meat is produced by cultivating animal cells—such as muscle and fat cells—in a lab using nutrients and growth factors. This innovative process creates meat without the need to slaughter animals, setting it apart from conventional livestock farming.

 Currently, only a few countries have approved the commercialization of cultured meat, including the United States and Singapore.

  • In the U.S., the Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the sale of cultured chicken in June 2023.
  • Singapore became the first country in the world to greenlight cultured meat sales in 2020. Since then, some restaurants and select retail outlets there have started offering these products.

 As more countries explore this technology, cultured meat is steadily moving toward widespread commercialization.

 

 

 

 

Arguments For and Against Cultured Meat

 Proponents’ Perspectives

  1. Environmental Benefits
    Cultured meat significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to traditional livestock farming. It also uses far less water and land, making it a sustainable alternative.
  2. Improved Animal Welfare
    Since cultured meat eliminates the need for animal slaughter, it offers an ethical choice for those concerned about animal cruelty.
  3. Addressing Food Security
    With the global population rising and climate change threatening food supplies, cultured meat could provide a solution to growing food scarcity.
  4. Health and Safety
    Cultured meat reduces the risk of zoonotic diseases, such as avian flu or foot-and-mouth disease. It also avoids the use of antibiotics and growth hormones, potentially offering a safer and cleaner option.

 

 

 Critics’ Concerns

  1. High Production Costs
    As an emerging technology, cultured meat is currently expensive to produce, making it less accessible to the average consumer.
  2. Consumer Skepticism
    Many people view lab-grown meat as "unnatural" and remain hesitant to accept it. Convincing the public of its safety and long-term benefits remains a challenge.
  3. Impact on Traditional Livestock Farming
    Farmers and others in the livestock industry see cultured meat as a threat to their livelihoods, raising concerns about job loss and local economic disruptions.
  4. Regulatory and Legal Challenges
    Cultured meat requires new frameworks for food safety, labeling, and distribution, which governments worldwide are still working to establish.

 

 

What Does the Future Hold for Cultured Meat?

 The commercialization of cultured meat could drastically reshape the livestock industry. However, new challenges may emerge, such as managing animal populations. Releasing domesticated livestock into the wild might disrupt ecosystems, as many modern farm animals are ill-suited for survival without human care. Protected sanctuaries may become necessary for these animals.

 The ultimate position of cultured meat in the market remains uncertain. Consumer demand, technological advancements, and government regulations will all play crucial roles in determining its success.

 

 

Conclusion: Preparing for a Shared Future

 Cultured meat holds immense potential for addressing food security, promoting environmental sustainability, and advancing animal welfare. Yet, its widespread adoption will require overcoming technological, economic, and social hurdles while balancing the needs of traditional livestock farming.

 As consumers, we must stay informed and vigilant. Ensuring the freedom to choose between natural and cultured meat is essential. Governments and corporations should not unduly influence or restrict our choices. By advocating for fairness and transparency, we can help shape this groundbreaking innovation into a positive force for everyone.