Interconnected forms of violence of CAFOs and indigenous peoples’ rights in Yucatán

Karen Hudlet Vázquez

Chapter 57 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 218-221 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations [CAFOs] have multiple social and environmental impacts that disproportionately affect indigenous and peasant communities in Latin America. Indigenous communities have been resisting this industry through different means, including counter-hegemonic litigation. The judicialization of these socio-environmental conflicts has been successful in some cases, as in Homún, Yucatan, with the suspension and cancellation of CAFOs. Framing the meat industry's impacts as infringements on human rights, environmental rights, and the rights of nature provides opportunities for questioning the sector and promoting other forms of producing and (non) consuming meat.

Keywords: Indigenous rights; Agrarian extractivism; Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations; CAFOs; Mexico; Violence; Factory farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
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