Harvard’s Animal Law Clinic Is Closing, Chicks Are Still Being Ground Up, and the Meat Industry Is Panicking. Just Another Week. | Rising Anxieties
About this episode
Mariann discusses the closure of Harvard's Animal Law Clinic and the meat industry's response to plant-based alternatives.
In this episode of Rising Anxieties, Mariann digs into the uncomfortable gap between what institutions say and what they do — starting with Harvard Law School’s baffling decision to shutter its fully-enrolled Animal Law Clinic. From there: the industry’s coordinated PR campaign against plant-based alternatives (spoiler: they’re scared), the ongoing farce of in-ovo sexing technology being “not ready” for the US…
People in this episode
Host: Mariann Sullivan
Topics covered
- animal law
- plant-based alternatives
- meat industry
- animal rights
- institutional hypocrisy
Keywords
- Harvard Law School
- Animal Law Clinic
- meat industry
- plant-based
- in-ovo sexing
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Harvard Law School, Animal Law Clinic, meat industry
Products: plant-based alternatives
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