August 16, 2022 Program Harvard analyzes ‘threats’ of striking down Prop 12
“California has the right to relieve animals from their suffering inside tiny, body-gripping cages, and to divest from the products of that cruel confinement,” said Kelsey Eberly, legislative policy fellow at Harvard’s Animal Law & Policy Program and author of the report.
August 16, 2022 Program Meat has a big carbon footprint. The Inflation Reduction Act ignores it.
Most of the money allocated for agriculture will pay farmers to employ what the USDA has dubbed “climate-smart” farming practices. But according to NYU environmental studies professor Matthew Hayek and Harvard Law policy fellow Jan Dutkiewicz, those supported practices may not be all that climate-smart, as they’re unlikely to make much of a dent in emissions.
August 15, 2022 Program California’s pork production law is about much more than pigs, supporters tell Supreme Court
Pigs are “highly intelligent, curious, empathetic, social beings,” the advocates said, citing a study that found female pigs could identify their newborn piglets by voice. “As such, they deserve to at least be allowed to turn around in their enclosures,” they added in a brief written by the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic.
August 15, 2022 Program Exotic pets first brought monkeypox to the U.S., and 19 years later, we still barely regulate them
Op-Ed by Ann Linder, a wildlife research fellow at Harvard Law School’s Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law & Policy Program studying live animal markets and zoonotic disease.