Commodification of Farm Animals

Sophie Riley is an associate professor in the faculty of law at the University of Technology Sydney. Her teaching and research interests focus on environmental law, animal law and environmental ethics. She is the lead editor of the Animal Law Case Book, written by UTS students of Animal Law and Policy, which is freely available in the public domain. Sophie also occupies a number of important positions in the animal law field including: as a member of GAL, the Global Animal Law expert group; a member of the grant award panel for Voiceless, the Animal Protection Institute; a member of the Animal Research Review Panel, a government body that oversees Animal Ethics Committees in New South Wales; and also as the Vice-President of AALTRA Inc. (The Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association).

• Introduction: For What Is the Animal But the Profits Thereof?.- “Meating” the Demand: Markets and Commodification.- The Enlightenment Casts A Shadow: Anti-Cruelty in the Nineteenth Century.- Animal Disease as a Trade Issue: Cattle Plagues and the Veterinary Profession.- Internationalisation of Disease and the Trade in Animals.- Whither Ethics?.- A Sufficient Level of Repugnance.- Conclusion: Decommodifying Farm Animals.