Wild or Farmed? Seeking Effective Science in a Controversial Environment
Arguments implicating nature and science can arise in the most unlikely places. At the supermarket smoked salmon awaits shoppers: chinook salmon from British Columbia, and Atlantic salmon from B.C., New Brunswick, or Norway. They are priced the same, and look similar, but embedded in their diverse p...
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ftunitorontoojs:oai:jps.library.utoronto.ca:article/2971 2023-05-15T15:31:10+02:00 Wild or Farmed? Seeking Effective Science in a Controversial Environment Bocking, Stephen 2007-12-08 application/pdf https://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/article/view/2971 https://doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v1i1.2971 eng eng HAPSAT: History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Graduate Student Association https://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/article/view/2971/1089 https://spontaneousgenerations.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/article/view/2971 doi:10.4245/sponge.v1i1.2971 Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science; Vol 1 No 1 (2007): Scientific Expertise: Epistemological Worries, Political Dilemmas; 48 1913-0465 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion discussion 2007 ftunitorontoojs https://doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v1i1.2971 2020-12-01T10:20:30Z Arguments implicating nature and science can arise in the most unlikely places. At the supermarket smoked salmon awaits shoppers: chinook salmon from British Columbia, and Atlantic salmon from B.C., New Brunswick, or Norway. They are priced the same, and look similar, but embedded in their diverse provenance is a controversy thirty years in the making. The “wild” chinook salmon were caught in the open ocean; the “farmed” Atlantic salmon were raised in pens in coastal inlets. The distinction has spawned an intense debate over salmon farming (also known as aquaculture)—nowhere more so than in British Columbia. In some ways this coastal controversy is unique, epitomizing the symbolic significance of all things marine to British Columbians. But it shares a crucial feature with other controversies, such as those involving genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology, or climate change. Since the debate began, science has played an essential role as a source of information and authority. Scientific knowledge and practice can be said to have contributed to creating the controversy, have added to its intractability, and, perhaps hold some keys to its resolution. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon University of Toronto: Journal Publishing Services Norway Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 1 1 |
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Arguments implicating nature and science can arise in the most unlikely places. At the supermarket smoked salmon awaits shoppers: chinook salmon from British Columbia, and Atlantic salmon from B.C., New Brunswick, or Norway. They are priced the same, and look similar, but embedded in their diverse provenance is a controversy thirty years in the making. The “wild” chinook salmon were caught in the open ocean; the “farmed” Atlantic salmon were raised in pens in coastal inlets. The distinction has spawned an intense debate over salmon farming (also known as aquaculture)—nowhere more so than in British Columbia. In some ways this coastal controversy is unique, epitomizing the symbolic significance of all things marine to British Columbians. But it shares a crucial feature with other controversies, such as those involving genetically modified organisms, nanotechnology, or climate change. Since the debate began, science has played an essential role as a source of information and authority. Scientific knowledge and practice can be said to have contributed to creating the controversy, have added to its intractability, and, perhaps hold some keys to its resolution. |
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