Symposia: LPE of Meat

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Antimonopoly Is About Democratizing the Food System (and the Rest of the Economy)

By Claire Kelloway, Sandeep Vaheesan

The goal of antimonopoly policy is not simply to help farmers. Antimonopoly law seeks to redistribute decision making power systematically down the supply chain. Expanding workers’ rights and enacting antimonopoly laws must go together. Establishing more rights for labor without also restructuring this system is unlikely to do more than make marginal improvements

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Don’t Trust the Antitrust Narrative on Farms

By Nathan Rosenberg, Bryce Wilson Stucki

The progressive antitrust narrative is based on profoundly flawed analysis of the farm economy. The break ’em up approach may distribute property rights in human and animal misery more evenly, but it does not address the exploitation at the heart of the system.

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Environmental Justice is Climate Justice is Justice for Animals

By Lee Miller

One of the great dangers of our national climate policy vacuum is that the fox will happily take charge of the henhouse. In North Carolina, a partnership between Big Pig and Big Energy foreshadows a troubling realignment of the forces of oligarchy…

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We treat animals as legal objects. We should treat them as legal subjects instead.

By Jeff Sebo

The law treats animals as objects with no legally-recognized rights or interests. Changing the basic legal status of animals will make positive change easier to achieve.

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At the Cost of an Animal

By Matthew Liebman

Animal agriculture relies on cultural myths about farming. The animal rights movement seeks to build countervailing narratives that center the ugly reality. The result is an ongoing legal battle about speech, truth, and visibility.

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Break Up the Modern Meat Trust

By Viveca Morris

Big Meat’s rise to power is not the result of entrepreneurial savvy exercised in a free market. Multinational meat conglomerates have flourished because they are massively subsidized at the public’s expense.

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The LPE of Meat: A Symposium on Food & Agriculture

By Caroline Parker

While leftists begin to coalesce in opposition to industrial meat production, the imagined left alternative remains ill-defined. The goal of this symposium is to crack open these conversations on the blog.