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 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.
May 20, 2024 Program Farm Animals Are Hauled All Over the Country. So Are Their Pathogens.
“But that’s only getting at a very small fraction of the problem,” said Ann Linder, an associate director at the Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School.