Controlling biodiversity? Ethical analysis of the case of swine fever and wild boar in Denmark

Christian Gamborg; Peter Sandøe

Controlling biodiversity? Ethical analysis of the case of swine fever and wild boar in Denmark

in Ethics and the politics of food

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Christian Gamborg

Christian Gamborg Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment (CeBRA), Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Universty, Rolighedsvej 25, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark, chg@kvl.dk

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Peter Sandøe Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment (CeBRA), Royal Veterinary and Agricultural Universty, Rolighedsvej 25, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark, chg@kvl.dk

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865758_019

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Biodiversity has high priority these years – not many would argue against a concern for biodiversity. However, our prioritising of biodiversity is dependent upon the level of nature we are addressing. Big mammals are lacking in Danish nature. They have been here before, why not reintroduce them or allow for natural migration to promote biodiversity and wildness? But a “richer” nature is not the only value at stake. Denmark also has a position as the world’s largest exporter of pork. Wild boar carries a risk of acting as a vector for infecting pigs in livestock production with classical swine fever (CSF). At face value it seems like a classical conflict between considerable economic interests and profound conservation concerns. To get to a full understanding and open up for a more comprehensive discussion we need to address the embedded ethical issues. What degree of control are we ready to exert and how do we really value nature? The paper argues that besides the distinction and potential conflict between nature as a value and the common good, there is also an interesting distinction to be made between “micro” nature – including the virus that cause classical swine fever – and “macro” nature – medium sized flora and fauna. Predominantly, micro nature is something we want to control, whereas we want macro nature to be let loose. This dichotomy of ‘nature’ has to be addressed.

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Ethics and the politics of food

Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

ISBN:: 9789086865758

Verleger:: Wageningen Academic

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 10 Oct 2006

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