Antitrust and animal agriculture

David S. Muraskin

Chapter 15 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 55-58 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: A variety of US statutes target corporate wrongdoing that can manipulate markets, and several of them have the potential to reach much further to prohibit abusive practices enabled by corporate power, whether or not those practices can be shown to have broad economic effects. As the animal agriculture industry has concentrated, it has become a target of suits under these laws, as well as political activism that argues industrial agriculture demonstrates the present enforcement of competition laws is too limited. The remedies achievable under these statutes, however, are largely limited to damages and other forms of economic relief, making the laws’ and activism's impact on animals indirect.

Keywords: Antitrust; Competition; Concentration; Markets; Trusts; Animal agriculture; Sherman Act; Clayton Act; Robinson-Patman Act; Packers and Stockyards Act; Federal Trade Commission Act (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
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