Paving the way for farm animal welfare in international relations: an EU-Brazil case study
As a sensitive area in international trade, animal welfare measures have encountered resistance in negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Consequently, alternative avenues have been pursued to reach international trade policy convergence. To further understand the contemporary trade politics of animal welfare, an empirical investigation was conducted on the interplay between European and Brazilian […]
Science, Animal Ethics and the Law
Within the paradigm of the desirability of an age of plenty, science has delivered a rapid expansion in animal production by changing the living standards, morphology and physiology of animals. While various philosophers have espoused more compassionate and just treatment of animals for at least twenty centuries, it is only in recent times that animal […]
An International Treaty for Animal Welfare
Currently there is no international agreement that ensures the welfare and protection of animals. Nor is there any international standard that regulates and defines the acceptable treatment of animals. This lack of international consensus leads to the current disparate treatment of animals around the world, echoing the need for an international framework addressing the issue. […]
Regulatory Capture and the Welfare of Farm Animals in Australia
Recent controversies over the treatment of animals within Australia’s agricultural sector have raised questions over the adequacy of current governance and regulatory arrangements for farm animal welfare. Concerns have been expressed over perceived conflicts of interest on behalf of State and Federal Departments of Agriculture in administering animal welfare law. The theory of regulatory capture […]
International Animal Welfare Perspectives, Including Whaling and Inhumane Seal Killing as a WTO Public Morality Issue
Most people consider that we have moral obligations to other people, to animals of other species and to ensuring the sustainability of production systems. A system or procedure is sustainable if it is acceptable now and if its expected future effects are acceptable, in particular in relation to resource availability, consequences of functioning and morality […]
Of chimps and men: animal welfare vs. animal rights and how losing the legal battle may win the political war for endangered species
American law has historically viewed nonhuman animals as property whose interests are balanced against those of humans a so-called “welfarist” view of animals. In contrast, animal-rights proponents argue that animals are legal persons entitled to a slate of rights regardless of the inconvenience for humans. Animal advocates of both stripes dissatisfied with welfarist statutes such […]