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Using Emerging Pollution Tracking Methods To Address The Downstream Impacts Of Factory Farm Animal Welfare Abuse, Tarah Heinzen, Abel Russ Aug 2014

Using Emerging Pollution Tracking Methods To Address The Downstream Impacts Of Factory Farm Animal Welfare Abuse, Tarah Heinzen, Abel Russ

Pace Environmental Law Review

CAFOs present numerous interconnected ethical, environmental, and public health threats, and this article will discuss opportunities to address the multiple adverse impacts of factory farming through advances in pollution tracking methodologies. The first section will introduce the factory farm issue, and the relationship between its environmental and welfare consequences. We then review approaches to establishing liability for surface and groundwater contamination under existing pollution control laws and describe the unique challenges of using these approaches in the context of CAFO pollution. We then discuss techniques that have been used to more precisely identify sources of pollution, including measurements of a …


You Don't Own Me: Feral Dogs And The Question Of Ownership, Stacy A. Nowicki Jan 2014

You Don't Own Me: Feral Dogs And The Question Of Ownership, Stacy A. Nowicki

Animal Law Review

Feral dogs occupy an ambiguous position, challenging standard categories of domestication, wildness, and property ownership. This ambiguity, in turn, complicates the legal status of feral dogs. Feral dogs' property status is particularly critical, as whether a feral dog is owned by someone, or no one at all, hold implications not only for civil and criminal liability in incidents involving feral dogs, but also the legal ability of animal rescue organizations to intervene in the lives of feral dogs. Part II of this Article summarizes the application of property law to ani­mals, particularly highlighting the role played by an animal's status …


La Clonación Con Fines Ganaderos De Los Animales En La Ue: De La Ética Al Derecho Agroalimentario, Luis González Vaqué Dec 2013

La Clonación Con Fines Ganaderos De Los Animales En La Ue: De La Ética Al Derecho Agroalimentario, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

A finales del año 2013 la Comisión Europea presentó una Propuesta de Directiva relativa a la clonación de animales de las especies bovina, porcina, ovina, caprina y equina criados y reproducidos con fines ganaderos. El objetivo de dicha propuesta es garantizar la existencia de condiciones uniformes de producción para los ganaderos, protegiendo al mismo tiempo la salud y el bienestar de los animales. En este contexto, se considera que la suspensión de la técnica de la clonación y de las importaciones de clones vivos es una medida adecuada y necesaria para alcanzar el citado objetivo. Ofrece también la mejor relación …