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Animals and the Impact of Trade Law and Policy: A Global Animal Law Question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2020

Iyan Offor
Iyan Offor*
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Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK). Email: iyan.offor@strath.ac.uk.
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Abstract

There is a critical research gap regarding the trade and animal welfare interface: we do not know, empirically, what the impact of trade on animal welfare is. This gap exists, in part, as a result of the paternalism of international trade law and the underdevelopment of global animal law. This article addresses, firstly, the collision of dichotomous trade and animal welfare priorities in legal and political systems. It then explores attempts at reconciliation by the World Trade Organization and the European Union. This involves an investigation of the impact of trade on animal welfare. This impact is categorized into four component parts: (i) open markets, (ii) low animal-welfare havens, (iii) a chilling effect, and (iv) lack of labelling. Case studies from the European Union are examined. Thirdly, the article critiques trade law and policy as ill-suited primary drivers of global governance for animals. Global animal law is identified as a promising alternative, although its early development has been unduly affected by international trade law.

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Global animal lawTrade lawInternational tradeEuropean UnionAnimal welfareAnimal justice
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , July 2020 , pp. 239 - 262
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Footnotes

I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful engagement with this article throughout the review process. I would also like to thank Stephanie Switzer, Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann, Anne Peters, Katie Sykes, and Saskia Vermeylen for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article.

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109 Laying Hens Directive, n. 83 above.

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117 Ibid.

118 Ibid.

119 Commission Decision of 14 October 1998 amending Council Decision 97/602/EC concerning the List referred to in the Second Subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3254/91 and in Article 1(1)(a) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 35/97 [1998] OJ L 286/56.

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121 Regulation 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council on Cosmetic Products [2009] OJ L 342/52, Art. 18(1)(a)–(d).

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127 European Parliament Legislative Resolution COM 2005/0221 on the Proposal for a Council Directive laying down Minimum Rules for the Protection of Chickens Kept for Meat Production [2005] OJ C 290E/86, amendment 8.

128 Ibid.

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148 E.g., Fitzgerald, n. 71 above, p. 102.

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159 Ibid.

160 E.g., Animal Welfare Act 2006 c.45 (United Kingdom), s. 4.

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164 E.g., World Organization for Animal Health, n. 56 above, s. 7.

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166 Information available at: https://www.globalanimallaw.org.

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