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2000: Suman Sahai , Gene Campaign: Gene Patents in India

2000: Suman Sahai , Gene Campaign: Gene Patents in India 2004: Richard Jefferson, CAMBIA: Public-Good Intellectual Property 2006: Margaret Mellon, Union of Concerned Scientists: Regulation of Factory Farms 2007: David Cleveland, UCSB: The Local Food Movement in California

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2000: Suman Sahai , Gene Campaign: Gene Patents in India

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  1. 2000: SumanSahai, Gene Campaign: Gene Patents in India 2004: Richard Jefferson, CAMBIA: Public-Good Intellectual Property 2006: Margaret Mellon, Union of Concerned Scientists: Regulation of Factory Farms 2007: David Cleveland, UCSB: The Local Food Movement in California 2008: Peggy Barlett, Emory: Sustainability Movements on U.S. Campuses 2011: Jack Kloppenburg, Wis.: Politics of Foodsheds 2012: This evening’s panel

  2. Thanks to… College of Arts & Sciences Dept. of Anthropology Program in Env. Studies Danforth Ctr. Center on Religion & Politics Burning Kumqwat

  3. “A Very Economical Way to Produce Meat” • But only economical because allowed to externalize costs • bio-environmental damage (fertilizer pollution, bee colony collapse, etc.) • human-environmental damage (deteriorating rural areas) • public health damage (antibiotic resistance) • and especially animal cruelty on unprecedented scale

  4. How Did We Get HereandWhat Is Our Ethical Response? It’s out fault as consumers – our “growing appetite for cheap meat”

  5. The Actual History

  6. Responses • Stop Eating Meat

  7. Responses • Stop Eating Meat • Reform Laws & Policies

  8. Responses • Stop Eating Meat • Reform Laws & Policies • Techno-Fetishism

  9. Counter-Responses • New PR campaigns

  10. Counter-Responses • New PR campaigns • Ag-Gag

  11. Counter-Responses • New PR campaigns • Ag-Gag • New niche: food scrooges

  12. Small Farms Productivity & Sustainability ROMANTIC & UNSCIENTIFIC? Olga Linares Ester Boserup Robert Netting and many others…

  13. In US & Canada: New Agrarianism “the celebration of agriculture and rural life for the positive impact thereof on the individual and society” 1947

  14. An Ethical Argument for Supporting New Farms • (promotes rural life, slow money, and farmers) • (produces more than enough food – we already produce too much food) • Welfare of Animals on New American Farms • A good life they would never have if not for carnivory • Welfare of Animals in CAFO’s • This is the only real challenge to hegemony of CAFO meat • A world is within reach in which humanely raised, healthy, pastured meat is the default

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