农业与人类食物边界的划定

The Demarcation of the Boundary between Agriculture and Human Food

文章首次提出了"食物边界"的概念。采集渔猎时期人类的食物资源利用处于一种"无边界"的状态,人类可能曾经利用过地球上一切可利用的食物充饥。在漫长的探索中,世界各地的先民们逐渐排异和淘汰了对自身有疾病伤害之祸的食物品种,集中选育出了一批优质的农牧果蔬品种,同时辅之以不同的烹饪加工技术化解食物所含毒素和病菌,保证了人类的生命安全。再经过各地区之间不断的相互补益和完善,最终形成了一个足以保证人类生存繁衍的食物资源库。然而,农业所廓清的这条人类食物利用的边界在灾异与丰裕情形下,往往也会出现失范与越界。此种失范与越界不仅侵害了自然界其他动植物的生存权,也对人类社会的伦理道德造成冲击,乃至危及人类的生命安全。

This paper puts forward the concept of"food boundary"for the first time.In the gathering and hunting period,the utilization of human food resources is in a state of"no boundary".Human beings may have used all food available on the earth to satisfy their hunger.In a long quest,the ancestors around the world gradually rejected and eliminated the food varieties that were harmful to their health and produced a batch of high-quality fruits and vegetables.At the same time,it is supplemented by different cooking processing technologies to eliminate toxins and bacteria in food,to ensure the safety of human life.After continuous mutual benefit and improvement among different regions,a food resource bank is finally formed,which is sufficient to ensure human survival and reproduction.However,in the case of disaster and abundance,the boundary of human food use,which is made clear by agriculture,often goes out of line and crosses the boundary.This kind of anomie and transgression not only violates the survival right of other animals and plants in nature,but also causes an impact on the ethics and morality of human society,and even endangers the safety of human life.