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Meat Animals, Humane Standards And Other Legal Fictions, David N. Cassuto
Meat Animals, Humane Standards And Other Legal Fictions, David N. Cassuto
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Law and food are distinct concepts, though the discipline (Law and Food) implies a relationship worthy of study. The conjunction (“and”) creates meaning. However, its absence also conveys meaning. For example, “meat animal” suggests that animals can be both meat and animal. This conflation has powerful legal implications. National Meat Association v. Harris (2012) makes chillingly plain the law’s indifference to whether a meat animal is alive or dead. This essay examines the way supposedly humane federal practices ignore the systematic brutalization of “food animals” as those animals get processed into marketable flesh. It concludes with some observations about why …
Setting The Table For Urban Agriculture, Margot J. Pollans
Setting The Table For Urban Agriculture, Margot J. Pollans
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article provides context for the various roles that law plays in the cultivation of urban agriculture. This article first reflects on how popular support for the development of a legal framework that promotes urban agriculture is rooted deeply in American agrarian traditions. The article then notes the palatable tension between the rhetoric in support of urban agriculture and the modes of urban law and planning that dominated the twentieth century. It considers how various approaches to urban planning have facilitated or thwarted urban agriculture and surveys recent legal developments designed to accommodate and encourage urban agriculture projects as alternatives …
The International Sugar Trade And Sustainable Development: Curtailing The Sugar Rush, Nadia B. Ahmad
The International Sugar Trade And Sustainable Development: Curtailing The Sugar Rush, Nadia B. Ahmad
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Article will briefly examine the history of the international sugar trade and discuss the current status of the sugar industry in world markets, specifically in Brazil, India, and the United States. The international sugar trade industry should consider instituting sustainable development practices not only for the public good, but also to enhance its bottom line. As "one of the most highly distorted agricultural commodity markets," the international sugar market is an ideal environment to implement sustainable development practices and begin change with respect to CSR through "guaranteed minimum payments to producers, production and marketing controls (quotas), state-regulated retail prices, …