The Dublin Declaration: Gain for the Meat Industry, Loss for Science
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10497490" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10497490 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KOj1pgRy54" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KOj1pgRy54</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103922" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103922</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Dublin Declaration: Gain for the Meat Industry, Loss for Science
Original language description
We critically analyzed the "Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of Livestock" (DD), a document promoting animal farming, and its implications for public discourse and policy. Our analysis reveals that the DD is scientifically problematic, particularly in its neglect of issues such as meat overconsumption in high-income countries and the dominance of industrial animal production, thereby downplaying associated risks and harms. We also show that the DD's authors essentially suggest that societies should simply rely on technological progress to fix any "challenges" associated with the sector, a suggestion that aligns with the authors' private interests. We identify several academically questionable practices, including denial of credentials to dissenting actors, omission of significant conflicts of interest, and excessive self-edition and self-citation, all while purporting to provide a scientific and balanced overview. Relatedly, we bring into view conflicts of interests of the Irish semi-state authority Teagasc, which hosted a DD-related summit, and of Animal Frontiers and the animal production science associations behind it, which published a special issue edited by the DD's authors containing the DD. We explore potential responsibilities by these organizations, the DD's authors, and Nature Food, which published a follow-up correspondence by two of the DD's authors. Our perspective contributes to the growing literature exposing the influence of the meat industry on science and its representation in public discourse. We discuss broader policy measures to mitigate and counteract this influence.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Environmental Science and Policy
ISSN
1462-9011
e-ISSN
1873-6416
Volume of the periodical
162
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
103922
UT code for WoS article
001367007500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85208889658