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Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture.
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Becoming Salmon, Marianne Elisabeth Lien
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Becoming Salmon
- Subtitle
- Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish (California Studies in Food and Culture)
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Marianne Elisabeth Lien
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN10
- 0520280571
- ISBN13
- 9780520280571
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Cookbooks, Food & Drinks, Food, Technology, Agricultural Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, Pets & Animal Care, Social Aspects, Animal Rights, Seafood, Fish Farming, Biologists, Salmon
- Description
- Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile and contingent relational practices that constitute salmon aquaculture.