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Data Driven Weed Management: Tracking Herbicide Resistance At The Landscape Scale, A. Bryan Endres, Natalie M. West, Jeffrey A. Evans, Lisa R. Schlessinger
Data Driven Weed Management: Tracking Herbicide Resistance At The Landscape Scale, A. Bryan Endres, Natalie M. West, Jeffrey A. Evans, Lisa R. Schlessinger
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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A Return To The Crossroads: Farming, Nutrient Loss, And Conservation, Jonathan Coppess
A Return To The Crossroads: Farming, Nutrient Loss, And Conservation, Jonathan Coppess
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
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Animal Ethics And The Law, Bernard Rollin
Animal Ethics And The Law, Bernard Rollin
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
Everyone reading this Article is doubtless aware of the woeful lack of legal protection for farm animals in the United States. Not only do the laws fail to assure even a minimally decent life for the majority of these animals, they do not provide protection against the most egregious treatment. As both a philosopher who has helped articulate new emerging societal ethics for animals, and as one who has successfully developed laws embodying that ethic—notably the 1985 federal laws protecting laboratory animals—I will stress the direction we need to move in the future to enfranchise farm animals. I have seen …
An Argument For The Basic Legal Rights Of Farmed Animals, Steven M. Wise
An Argument For The Basic Legal Rights Of Farmed Animals, Steven M. Wise
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
The most abused beings in the United States are those whom we raise and kill for food. The numbers of dead are staggering. Most are victims of the severe and almost entirely unregulated practices that Americans permit on their factory farms. According to the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, in 2007, a total of 10.4 billion land-based animals were killed by the American food industry. These included 9.4 billion broiler chickens, 450 million laying hens, 317 million turkeys, 121 million pigs, 39 million bovines, 28 million ducks, 10 million rabbits, and 4 million sheep and goats—fifty …