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New Academic Journal Calls for Contributions Discussing Legal and Ethical Issues Relating to Animals

The Journal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health (LEOH), a new academic journal edited by the Center of Animal Law and Ethics (CALE) at the University of Zurich’s Faculty of Law in Switzerland, is calling for contributions. LEOH is particularly interested in receiving articles discussing legal and ethical issues relating to animals, the “One Health” approach, and case law and legislation relating to animals, with a focus on Europe. LEOH also is welcoming contributions with a comparative perspective that highlight and comment on developments in other countries, which could play a pioneering role for the development of the subject matter in the European legal arena. LEOH is a fully open access journal and is accepting contributions in German, English, and French, with articles published on a rolling basis.

Philosopher’s Book Advocates for the Establishment of Rights for Animals

American philosopher Dr. Martha Nussbaum published a book, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility, which argues that “the time has come to recognize our ethical responsibility to the other animals.” It explores “the reach of human cruelty,” the “massive suffering of individual creatures” that culminates in extinction, and the intellectual tools necessary to effect meaningful change.

New Animal Welfare Textbook Published Open Access

The Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare has contributions from fifty authors and is a “comprehensive exploration of the rapidly growing fields of animal welfare and law.” The book “explores the biological foundations for the moral consideration of animals and for evolving conceptualisations of animal welfare” and “reviews in detail the welfare concerns associated with numerous forms of animal use.”

Article Published on Autistic-Animal Analogies

Muller, S. Marek and Z. Zane McNeill. “Toppling the Temple of Grandin: Autistic-Animal Analogies and the Ableist-Speciesist Nexus.” Rhetoric, Politics & Culture, vol. 1 no. 2, 2021, p. 195-225. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/869732 is “an ideological rhetorical criticism of Temple Grandin’s rhetorical texts.” The article examines “the analogical necropolitics central to Grandin’s portrayals of livestock and autistic people” and fuses critical autism studies with critical animal studies.

“To Meat, or Not to Meat: A Longitudinal Investigation of Transitioning to and from Plant-Based Diets”

An article by Taciano L. Milfont, Nicole Satherley, Danny Osborne, Marc S. Wilson, and Chris G. Sibley, “To Meat, or Not to Meat: A Longitudinal Investigation of Transitioning to and from Plant-Based Diets,” examines trends in transitions to plant-based diets. The study concludes that “higher levels of conservative ideologies (i.e., political conservatism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Social Dominance Orientation), lower subjective health, lower environmental efficacy, and lower disgust sensitivity predicted having an omnivore (vs. vegetarian or vegan) diet” and that “gender (men) and political conservatism predicted lower probabilities of transitioning from meat to no-meat diets over time.”

“Estimating the Effect of Moving Meat-Free Products to the Meat Aisle on Sales of Meat and Meat-Free Products: A Non-Randomised Controlled Intervention Study in a Large UK Supermarket Chain”

A new research article by Carmen Piernas, Brian Cook, Richard Stevens, Cristina Stewart, Jennifer Hollowell, Peter Scarborough, and Susan A. Jebb published in PLOS Medicine, “Estimating the Effect of Moving Meat-Free Products to the Meat Aisle on Sales of Meat and Meat-Free Products: A Non-Randomised Controlled Intervention Study in a Large UK Supermarket Chain,” evaluates whether changing the positioning of meat-free products in stores may be an effective method to reduce meat consumption. The study found that prominent positioning of meat-free products in the meat aisle of supermarkets “did not result in decreased sales of equivalent meat products,” but did lead “to a significant increase in sales of meat-free products, which was sustained over time” (by an average of 25%).