On Whale: Conundrums of Culture and Cetaceans as Local Meat

Holtzman, Jon D.

doi:10.1080/00141844.2015.1127268

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“…The CARTs indicated that the primary determinants affecting respondent experience and perceptions were number of fishing years and educational level, respectively (Figure a–f). Overall, these important livelihood and socio‐economic factors should be taken into account in order to develop effective community‐based conservation strategies for marine mammals (Figure a–e; Table ), both in the study area and also other similar economically underdeveloped regions where conflicts exist between local communities and marine mammals (Bennett & Dearden, ; Dickman, ; Holtzman, ; Zappes et al, , ).…”

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Fishers' experiences and perceptions of marine mammals in the South China Sea: Insights for improving community‐based conservation

Liu

Lin

Turvey

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Aquatic Conservation

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1. The successful conservation of marine mammals is often dependent upon support from local fishing communities, and valuable conservation insights can be obtained through understanding fishers' attitudes and awareness of marine mammals. A new local ecological knowledge dataset was obtained through large-scalequestionnaire-based interviews with 510 artisanal fishers from 16 coastal fishing communities around Hainan, China. Almost all respondents (92.7%) reported regular encounters with marine mammals. Many respondents reported negative interactions with marine mammals, including bycatch (25.5%), consumption (36.1%), and the sale of meat (9.2%), and respondent perceptions of marine mammals were often negative.3. Generalized linear models (GLMs) indicated that respondent experiences of marine mammal encounters and bycatch events were mainly predicted by indices of fishing effort and experience, rather than by geographic or socio-economic factors.Respondent experiences of eating or selling marine mammal meat were predicted by geographic location and by some livelihood and socio-economic factors.Respondent perceptions of marine mammals were instead predicted by fishing experience and education level. 4. Classification and regression trees (CARTs) showed that the most important factors determining respondent experiences and perceptions were number of fishing years and educational level, respectively. Both GLMs and CARTs indicated the complex effects of geographic, livelihood, and socio-economic factors on respondent experiences and perceptions of marine mammals. 5. Regional community-based conservation of marine mammals could be promoted through improved regulatory management and environmental education, sustainable ecological exploitation and economic development, and positive partnerships and collaboration between fishing communities, enforcement agencies, and researchers. ‡ These two authors contributed equally to this work.

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Fishers' experiences and perceptions of marine mammals in the South China Sea: Insights for improving community‐based conservation

Liu

Lin

Turvey

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Aquatic Conservation

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“…When thinking about ethically objectionable cultural food practices, many examples come easily to mind, such as the Asian practice of eating live seafood (e.g., fish, crab, shrimp, or octopus). Other examples include French foie gras, dolphin hunting in Japan, whale hunting in Norway, as well as the Asian gourmet tradition of eating edible bird's nest (Hobbs 2004;Holtzman 2017;Thorburn 2014Thorburn , 2015. These cultural food practices are well known to the public and have triggered their share of sensationalistic attention from the media and public outcries.…”

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Questioning Customs and Traditions in Culinary Ethics: the Case of Cruel and Environmentally Damaging Food Practices

Létourneau

Pigeon

2023

Food ethics

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Culinary traditions and food practices are at the center of our daily lives and therefore constitute an important part of culture. Whether they are part of significant rituals or simply routinely enacted, they tell us something about the way we relate to each other and to the non-human world. In other words, food practices have an ethical dimension. Our paper focuses on the possibility to make objective ethical assessments of problematic cultural practices rooted in culinary traditions as a reply to arguments associated with an ethical relativism according to which cultures produce ethical systems that are self-validating and therefore that cannot be criticized objectively. Drawing from examples involving animal cruelty and production methods harmful to the environment, we argue that it is possible to judge ethically questionable food practices from an objectivist standpoint inspired by moral progress, in contrario to a relativist point of view. Following a short discussion of ethical relativism, we present the outline of an acceptability test for questionable food practices and use it to analyse the case of the dog meat industry in South Korea.

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Chapter Seven: Norms, Ethics, Food and Nationalism

Ranta

Ichijo

2022

Food and Identity in a Globalising World

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On Whale: Conundrums of Culture and Cetaceans as Local Meat

Cited by 6 publications

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Fishers' experiences and perceptions of marine mammals in the South China Sea: Insights for improving community‐based conservation

Fishers' experiences and perceptions of marine mammals in the South China Sea: Insights for improving community‐based conservation

Questioning Customs and Traditions in Culinary Ethics: the Case of Cruel and Environmentally Damaging Food Practices

Chapter Seven: Norms, Ethics, Food and Nationalism

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