July 21, 2024 Program In Pandemic’s Shadow, Risk of Animal to Human Disease Spread Still High
From monkeypox to COVID-19, zoonotic disease outbreaks are on the rise. Here's how viruses spread from animals to humans.
June 12, 2024 Clinic Here’s why some want Mass. to end use of the most potent rat poisons
“What our petition argues is that poisoning raptors and coyotes and foxes and all of those animals who eat rodents, we believe that that is an unreasonable, adverse effect on the environment,” said Mathews, a former clinical instructor at the Animal Law and Policy Clinic who helped write the petition.
June 04, 2024 Program Republicans want to put pigs back in tiny cages. Again.
The provisions slipped into the Farm Bill may have consequences that reach far beyond the humane treatment of animals. They “could hamstring the ability of states to regulate not just animal welfare but also the sale of meat and dairy products produced from animals exposed to disease, with the use of certain harmful animal drugs, or through novel biotechnologies like cloning, as well as adjacent production standards involving labor, environmental, or cleanliness conditions,” Kelley McGill, a legislative policy fellow at Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program who authored an influential report last year on the potential impacts of the EATS Act.
May 28, 2024 Program How Pig Welfare Became a States’ Rights Issue
“States would no longer be able to set consistent standards for meat and dairy products sold or consumed within their borders, potentially disadvantaging in-state producers, creating deregulatory pressure, and increasing food safety and quality risks,” said Kelley McGill, a legislative policy fellow at the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic, in an email.