New Ibrahim article on factory farms

Arizona professor Darian Ibrahim has posted a fantastic new article on corporate law, market pressures, and "humane" animal products, which will appear in a forthcoming issue of Law & Contemporary Problems. It's called A Return to Descartes: Property, Profit, and the Corporate Ownership of Animals.This piece, like his previous work on the law and animal experimentation and anti-cruelty statutes, shows the failure of the law to protect animals in any meaningful way. We wonder if it's too soon to make conclusions about the consumer demand for foods produced under less oppressive conditions, given how recently that demand has arisen and the growing media interest in animal welfare, but believe that Ibrahim is correct that there's no way for low prices and decent living conditions for animals to coexist. As with many hard-line animal law arguments, the conclusion reveals a malaise about not only the state of the current law, but the prospect of future legal reform. In that spirit, but probably preaching to the choir, why not become a vegan?