1. « TUER EN TROIS ÉTAPES »: TRAJECTOIRE DE NORMALISATION DE LA CHASSE AUX PHOQUES CANADIENNE FACE À LA CAUSE ANIMALE ET AUX ADAPTATIONS LOCALES.
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RONSIN, Gaëlle, LEWIS, Nathalie, and BRISSON, Geneviève
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Canadian commercial seal hunt has been controversial for sixty years. Much of the debate has focused on the suffering of seals during their killing. Due to several condemnations, a series of regulations have been imposed in Canada since the 1970s to regulate this activity, which has become "the most closely monitored hunt in the world". Based on a field survey carried out in the Magdalen Islands (Quebec), this article discusses the trajectory of seal hunting standardization in its local implications and its renegotiations over time. The globalized animal welfare legislative framework, adopted during the period when the seal hunt controversy arose, has framed hunting practices and techniques, without always corresponding to field observations. Beyond the death, during the 2000s, scientific knowledge has centred the debate on the signs of suffering and (in)consciousness of the animal. Protocols were adopted: hunters must carry out a "three-stage slaughter". Thus, the path of normalization of this hunt resonates with the path taken by slaughterhouses for domestic animals. Recently, local environmental changes and the pluralization of animals in this environment, are transforming the way in which this killing is practiced, and are, once again, questioning the adequacy of standards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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