Research Guides: Animal Rights Law: Topics--Factory Farming

Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment by David Kirby
Call Number: TD195.A34 K57 2010
ISBN: 0312380585
Publication Date: 2010
Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
Call Number: S441 .B472 2009
ISBN: 158243543X
Publication Date: 2009
Long before organic produce was available at your local supermarket, Wendell Berry was farming and writing with the purity of food in mind. For the last five decades, he has embodied mindful eating through his land practices and his writing. In recognition of Berry's influence, Michael Pollan offers an introduction to this new collection. "To read the essays in this sparkling anthology," he writes, "many of them dating back to the 1970s and 1980s, is to realize just how little of what we are saying and hearing today Wendall Berry hasn't already said, bracingly before." This compendium joins today's bestsellers as essential reading for all who care about what they eat.
A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics by Paul Waldau & Kimberley C. Patton eds.
Call Number: BL439 .C66 2006
ISBN: 0231136420
Publication Date: 2006
Chapter 10: Are Animals for Humans? The Issues of Factory Farming
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food by Gene Baur
Call Number: SF140.S62 B38 2008
ISBN: 0743291581
Publication Date: 2008
Addresses the ethics of breeding animals for food, exposing inhumane practices utilized by typical food-production companies.
Foodopoly by Wenonah Hauter
Call Number: HD9005 .H358 2012
ISBN: 9781595587909
Publication Date: 2012
Pt. 5: The Story of Factory Farms.
Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms by Nicolette Hahn Niman
Call Number: TD930.2 .N56 2009
ISBN: 0061466492
Publication Date: 2009
Without a Tear by Mark H. Bernstein
Call Number: HV4708 .B47 2004
ISBN: 0252029119
Publication Date: 2004
Chapter 3: The Holocaust of Factory Farming

At the Fork
"Filmmaker and omnivore John Papola, together with his vegetarian wife Lisa, offer up a timely and refreshingly unbiased look at how farm animals are raised for our consumption. With unprecedented access to large-scale conventional farms, Papola asks the tough questions behind every hamburger, glass of milk and baby-back rib. What he discovers are not heartless industrialists, but America's farmers - real people who, along with him, are grappling with the moral dimensions of farming animals for food."
A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms
This documentary "exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in our modern industrial system of meat and poultry production...In the U.S. and elsewhere, the industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics and growth hormones and also by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways affecting the nearby towns and its citizens. This film documents the vast catastrophic impact on the environment and public health, as well as focuses on the individual lives damaged and destroyed."
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Law in Film collection
Right to Harm
"An exposé on the public health impact of factory farming across the United States, told through the eyes of residents in five rural communities. When pushed to their limit, these disenfranchised citizens band together to demand justice from legislators."

Agricultural Animals and Animal Law
Michigan Law Review First Impression online symposium, Apr. 2008.
Bred Meat: The Cultural Foundation of the Factory Farm
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By David N. Cassuto. Published at 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 59 (Wint. 2007).
Environment, Ethics, and the Factory Farm
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By David N. Cassuto, published at 54 S. Tex. L. Rev. 579 (2013).
Farm-Animal Welfare, Legislation, and Trade
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By Gaverick Matheny & Cheryl Leahy. Published at 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 325 (Wint. 2007).
The Forgotten Half of Food System Reform: Using Food and Agricultural Law to Foster Healthy Food Production
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By Emily Broad Leib, published at 9 J. Food L. & Pol'y 17 (2013).
From the Farm to the Factory: An Overview of the American and European Approaches to Regulation of the Beef Industry
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By Crisarla S. Houston. Published at 1 J. Food L. & Pol'y 269 (2005).
Protection for the Powerless: Political Economy History Lessons for the Animal Welfare Movement
By Jerry L. Anderson. Published at 4 Stan. J. Animal L. & Pol'y 1 (2011).
What's Good for the Goose . . . The Israeli Supreme Court, Foie Gras, and the Future of Farmed Animals in the United States
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By Mariann Sullivan & David J. Wolfson. Published at 70 Law & Contemp. Probs. 139 (Wint. 2007).
Why Manure May Be the Farm Animal Advocate's Best Friend: Using Environmental Statutes to Access Factory Farms
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By Ceclila Issacs-Blundin. Published at 21 Animal L. & Ethics 173 (2007).
Law review articles from HeinOnline
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Property Status and the Limited Impact of Welfare Legislation for Farm Animals
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By Lee J. McConnell, published at 9 J. Animal & Nat. Resources L. 63 (2013).
Using Emerging Pollution Tracking Methods to Address the Downstream Impacts of Factory Farm Animal Welfare Abuse
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Tarah Heinzen & Abel Russ, 31 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 475 (2014).

ALDF on Factory Farming
Collection of blog posts, conference announcements and papers from the Animal Legal Defense Fund.
ASPCA: Factory Farming
Information on factory farming with links to pending legislation.
Factory Farming
Information from Farm Sanctuary.
Factory Farming: Cruelty to Animals
PETA site, includes information on the myth of organic and free range labeling of food.
Farm Animal Issues
Information from the Animal Legal & Historical Center at MSU College of Law.
FDA Guidance Documents
Guidance documents from the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine.
Humane Society Factory Farming Issues
Includes information on avian influenza, cruel confinement of farm animals, cruel slaughter practices, environmental impact, force-fed animals, humane eating, and swine flu.
Judicious Use of Antimicrobials
FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) documents developed as part of its Food Safety Initiative (FSI) Education Program.
National Organic Program
USDA program that develops, implements, and administers national production, handling, and labeling standards. Include compliance and enforcement documents.
Table Egg Production and Hen Welfare: Agreement and Legislative Proposals
Feb. 14, 2014
Times Topics on Factory Farming
News about factory farming, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.