Learning from the llama: on the broad contours of cultural contributions and geographic expansion

Wakild, Emily

doi:10.1590/s0104-59702021000500006

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“…Moreover, studies about domesticated farm animals that originated on the Eurasian continent were disproportionate. The historical examination of other animals, such as the llama, turkey, Muscovy duck, and reindeer, could yield valuable insights about human-animal relationships in agriculture (Wakild, 2021), particularly of Indigenous practices.…”

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Using animal history to inform current debates in gene editing farm animals: A systematic review

Wright

Tworek²,

Keyserlingk³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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There is growing interest in gene editing farm animals. Some alterations could benefit animal welfare (e.g., improved heat tolerance in cattle with the “slick” gene), the environment (e.g., reducing methane emissions from cattle with induced pluripotent stem cells), and productivity (e.g., higher weight gains in cattle with the “double muscling” gene). Existing scholarship on the acceptability of such modifications has used myriad approaches to identify societal factors that shape the ethics and governance of this technology. We argue that integrating historical approaches—particularly from the relatively new and burgeoning field of animal history—offers a form of “anticipatory knowledge” that can help guide discussions on this topic. We conducted a systematic review of the animal history literature in English, German, and Spanish to identify the influence of political, scientific, economic, social, and cultural factors on the development and acceptance of such technologies. We identified analogous structures and fault lines in past debates about farm animals that provide insights for contemporary discussions about gene editing. Those analogous structures include the market power of meatpackers or the racialized precepts in livestock breeding, and fault lines, like the disconnect between states and citizens over the direction of food systems. Highlighting these similarities demonstrates how external forces have shaped—and will continue to shape—the acceptance or rejection of emerging biotechnologies as applied to farm animals.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using animal history to inform current debates in gene editing farm animals: A systematic review

Wright

Tworek²,

Keyserlingk³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Animal Consumption at Hospital de San Martín (Gran Canaria): First Zooarchaeological Analysis in the Modern Era of the Canary Islands (Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries CE)

Brito-Mayor,

Santana,

Moreno-García

et al. 2023

Int J Histor Archaeol

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The Canary Islands were initially colonized around 200 CE by North African Berber populations who brought with them domestic plants and animals. These communities remained isolated until the arrival of Europeans in the Late Middle Ages which triggered the conquest of the archipelago. Its geostrategic location in the framework of Atlantic expansion facilitated the arrival of people, knowledge, goods, plants, and animals which served to shape the new Canarian society. This study explores the dietary practices of this period through the zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains recovered at the Hospital de San Martín (fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries), Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain). Our results suggest that caprines were the main taxa consumed. This follows both the pre-colonial Indigenous tradition and, according to historical sources, the subsequent European period. The faunal assemblage recovered also reveals the first directly radiocarbon-dated cases in the Canary Islands of three hitherto unknown species: cattle, chicken, and rabbit. Moreover, the results evidence a progressive increase throughout the Modern Era of chicken and rabbit, and that translocating these new species to the archipelago during the European expansion led to a diversification of meat resources.

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Learning from the llama: on the broad contours of cultural contributions and geographic expansion

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Using animal history to inform current debates in gene editing farm animals: A systematic review

Using animal history to inform current debates in gene editing farm animals: A systematic review

Animal Consumption at Hospital de San Martín (Gran Canaria): First Zooarchaeological Analysis in the Modern Era of the Canary Islands (Fifteenth-Eighteenth Centuries CE)

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