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...intensive confinement has also contributed to the public health crisis described above, created huge environmental waste, and reduced animals?? lives to mere cogs in a machine—all negative externalities of factory farming. And Mr. Vilsack, as you’ll know from sitting in on Ec 10 lectures during your time here at Harvard, taxing negative externalities is a better idea than subsidizing them...
...first year, embraced this approach. Historically, we have held a mindset that “animals are property, and property has no rights,” Wise stated bluntly, arguing that animals were designated as property in an age of scientific illiteracy. Now that modern science is revealing animals?? cognitive and emotional abilities, Wise thinks it’s time for a new legal status for animals...
...hopes to establish animals as legal persons in future suits—he argues that if corporations and ships can already be persons before the law, it is absurd that animals cannot. Wise believes that until animals achieve legal personhood, even the strongest welfare laws will be undermined by animals?? property status—right now, there is no such thing as “animal rights law” he notes, only “animal slave...
...Back at HLS, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Cass Sunstein advocates a middle course. He argues that the real problem is not animals?? property status, but the lack of enforcement of current animal welfare statues by state prosecutors indifferent to institutionalized animal cruelty. He proposes allowing private citizens or advocacy groups to take suits on behalf of animals??a system that would both bring animal abusers to book and disincentivize abuses in the first place...
...previous Girl Talk albums, there are still plenty of satisfying “ah-ha!” moments when obscured bass lines or vocal tracks suddenly emerge in full force, allowing the listener to identify them and marvel at their complete transformation. “Feed the Animals?? is more hyperactive than Girl Talk’s previous album “Night Ripper,” with songs darting from genre to genre and rarely lingering long on any one loop. Though this hyperactivity may overwhelm at points, Girl Talk’s redistribution of guilty...