Restricting animal product sales based on cruelty in production

Rebecca Cary and Ralph Henry

Chapter 98 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Animal Law, 2025, pp 374-377 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In our increasingly globalized society, products of animal cruelty can be sold far away from where they are produced. Thus, animal advocates may seek to exclude such products from local marketplaces through laws that are sometimes enacted as citizen-directed ballot initiatives. Animal-use industries have contended that such laws impermissibly project local communities’ policy preferences throughout a country, or even internationally. However, the US Supreme Court recently affirmed that individual states may enact such bans to avoid local complicity in cruelty, and recent WTO rulings suggest these bans could withstand scrutiny under international trade regimes.

Keywords: Ballot initiatives; Proposition 12; Federalism; Animal products; World Trade Organization; US commerce clause (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803923666
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