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The animal welfare and the humanitarian slaughter in fish farming: an exploratory study for a sociology of technology

Grant number: 11/06120-2
Support Opportunities:Regular Research Grants
Start date: July 01, 2011
End date: December 31, 2013
Field of knowledge:Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
Principal Investigator:Carlos Eduardo de Melo Viegas da Silva
Grantee:Carlos Eduardo de Melo Viegas da Silva
Host Institution: Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Pirassununga , SP, Brazil
Associated researchers:Elisabete Maria Macedo Viegas ; Fabiana Cunha Viana Leonelli ; Marcelo Machado de Luca de Oliveira Ribeiro ; Rubens Nunes

Abstract

The animal welfare issue has growing in importance in Brazil. The animal welfare is the set of handling, husbandry and slaughter practices which grant to the farm animals, bred to become human food, the lowest possible stress and suffering. The cattle-raising and poultry are the two biggest Brazilian animal production chains, and they are more adequate to the animal welfare methods than fish breeding. Nevertheless in the Brazilian aquaculture production this adequacy is in another state, since even for the foreign fish-breeding the introduction of these new methods found difficulties which need to be settled and don´t are in place for the other animal production chains. So, there is some scholar controversy to determine if fish are, or are not, sentient beings. Therefore, in this way, the extension of the academic knowledge to the fish breeding seems to be a window of opportunity for the social scientist to know how a new assembly of social constructed techniques may result in a new paradigm of farming practices for this kind of animal. This movement sets diverse actors and diverse moments in a trajectory. In first place, it is about the production of new knowledge in the specialized scientific environment, in order to answer a social call for a new ethics to guide the relationship of human society regarding the animals used as food. In second place, a technological knowing should replace a technical empiric knowledge which is no longer acceptable, in a new deployment of technologies as well as the social relations in it implied. Therefore, this is an opportunity to study, research and to apply the elements of Sociology of Technology, a field of Social Sciences still in need of growing in Brazil. (AU)

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