Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más detallado de los retos de la ganadería europea
La ganadería plantea retos acuciantes para el bienestar de las personas, los animales y el medio ambiente. La Unión Europea otorga a los veterinarios importantes funciones para proteger el interés público como la seguridad alimentaria, el bienestar animal y la salud pública dentro de la industria. El equipo del proyecto VetValues, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, estudia cómo se promulgan y negocian los distintos valores en la atención veterinaria cotidiana. La investigación comparativa en tres países europeos, Países Bajos, Suecia e Italia, revelará cómo, junto a los ganaderos, veterinarios y los propios animales, los contextos normativo y económico configuran el «paisaje de valores» de la cría de animales. Al aprender de las diferencias y mejoras dentro de la industria ganadera, el equipo del proyecto aportará conocimientos teóricos sobre las relaciones entre humanos y animales. Dicho estudio también mejorará nuestra comprensión de los dilemas asociados a los sistemas alimentarios innovadores.
Objetivo
VetValues is a comparative ethnographic study of how European livestock farming juggles food security and economic viability with mounting concerns about biodiversity loss and global warming, the development of antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic diseases, and the compromised welfare needs of farm animals. It approaches the wicked problems of livestock production as questions of valuation and valuing—of what to value, when, and how. Specifically, it explores how the values of economic production, food safety, public health, animal welfare and ecology come together and are negotiated in animal husbandry, both in assessments and in practices of feeding, housing, and treating animals.
We focus on veterinarians, professionals at the heart of the institutional and regulatory arrangements that shape the politics and governance of human and farm animal life. Previous studies have focused on the ethical dilemmas of veterinarians. VetValues decentres individual deliberations, foregrounding instead how farming’s socio-material contexts shape ways of negotiating values. We develop the concept of value-scapes to explore how values are enacted in care practices and embedded in regulatory frameworks, veterinary knowledge, landscapes, animal bodies, barns and farming traditions.
Ethnographic research will compare veterinary care on farms in the Netherlands, Sweden and Italy. Contrasting different national, industrial and regulatory contexts will allow us to discern variations in the value-scapes of farm animal care in Europe. VetValues will thus advance our understanding of how the broader tensions within European food production are comprised—and sometimes resolved—in situated ways. It will provide a nuanced picture of the industry’s troublesome biopolitical projects that will inform theorizing on contentious multi-species relations in a world facing myriad pressing challenges to the health and well-being of humans, animals and the planet.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safety
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy sciencedomestic animalsanimal husbandry
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologyzoonosis
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacydrug resistanceantibiotic resistance
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
1012WX Amsterdam
Países Bajos