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    How Free Is Sow Stall Free? Incremental Regulatory Reform and Industry Co-optation of Activism

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    Carey, R; Parker, C; Scrinis, G
    Date
    2020-07-01
    Source Title
    Law and Policy
    Publisher
    WILEY
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Carey, Rachel; Scrinis, Gyorgy; Parker, Christine
    Affiliation
    Agriculture and Food Systems
    Melbourne Law School
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    Carey, R., Parker, C. & Scrinis, G. (2020). How Free Is Sow Stall Free? Incremental Regulatory Reform and Industry Co-optation of Activism. LAW & POLICY, 42 (3), pp.284-309. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12154.
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/251791
    DOI
    10.1111/lapo.12154
    ARC Grant code
    ARC/DP150102168
    Abstract
    This article critically examines how interactions between social movement activism, supermarkets, and the pork industry led to the voluntary adoption of “sow stall free” standards in Australia. We “backwards map” the regulatory space behind “sow stall free” products to show how the movement against factory farming became selectively focused on the abolition of one form of confinement for sows, rather than other forms of confinement and the conditions of the sows’ offspring, the piglets that are consumed. We argue that this facilitated an incremental shift to “sow stall free” production, allowing the concept of pig welfare to be corporatized in a way that maintains the dominant model of factory farmed pig meat production.

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