217: Animals as Legal Subjects

Rosalind English discusses the Animal Sentience Act with Edie Bowles of the Animal Law Foundation and Dr Rachel Dunn of Leeds Beckett. We explore the extent of this and other animal welfare laws in terms of compliance and enforceability, particularly for the billions of animals kept inside and in confined quarters, in order to end up on our supermarket shelves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRwk

Distorting the Plate: The Food Industry’s influence on Health, Science and Policy
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/distorting-the-plate-food-industrys-influence-on-health-science-policy

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