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Brasilia and Now Ghent (Belgium) ? Still Talking Climate Change & Agriculture

Posted on September 14, 2010
David Cassuto So here I am on a plane again ? this time to Belgium on my way to the Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, which is taking place in Ghent.  I?m back in steerage this time; no business class for our hero.  I swore I would never go back but here [...

The Dirty South? No; More Like Dirty Cleanup Efforts

Posted on September 09, 2010
Douglas Doneson Early May? With law school final exams a few days away, keeping up with current events was the last thing on my mind. But this past May, the BP oil spill was literally all over the place. Prior to transplanting to New Orleans for my summer internship, I applied to every volunteer site [...

Fed up with Feeding

Posted on September 08, 2010
Seth Victor Phillipsburg, NJ signed in a law Tuesday that makes it illegal to feed feral cats without permission. Violators could face up to $2,000 in fines at the discretion of the Municipal Court. Animal advocates debated this measure earlier, arguing that people should be allowed to help animals in need without fear of repercussions...

?Thinking About Animals Conference? at Brock University

Posted on September 08, 2010
David Cassuto More goodies from the email: CALL FOR PAPERS: THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS 2011- BROCK UNIVERSITY The Department of Sociology at Brock University is issuing a Call for Papers for a conference on ?Thinking About Animals? to be held March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Brock University, St...

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Gaga Wears Meat, Chimps Turned Into Bushmeat ? A World Gone Horribly Awry

Posted on September 08, 2010
David Cassuto So even as I fight to keep my gorge down after seeing Lady Gaga in a meat bikini (about which more soon), I know her offense against fashion and compassion pales in comparison to what’s going on out in the bush. Congolese chimps are being slaughtered for “bushmeat” at an alarming and grotesque [...

Morrissey Half-Cocked

Posted on September 07, 2010
David Cassuto From the Wish He Hadn’t Said It Desk: Morrissey calls the Chinese a “subspecies” because of the widespread mistreatment of animals that goes on in China.  It’s hard to know where to begin with this kind of racist, unproductive, polarizing rant...

Some More Cool Animal Law CLE

Posted on September 07, 2010
David Cassuto From the email: The DePaul Center for Animal Law cordially invites you and your colleagues to join us for this year?s symposium, ?Revisiting the Line between Free Speech and Obscenity: U.S. v. Stevens and Its Impact on Animal Welfare?. The symposium will take place at the DePaul College of Law on Thursday, September [...

Animal Law Goes to the Pro Football Hall of Fame

Posted on September 07, 2010
Bridget Crawford Earlier this summer I visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio with my father (who is in his 70?s) and my daughter (who is 10). .  I love the Jim Thorpe statue and the Hall of Fame Gallery?s bronze busts.  I refreshed my sports memory, learned a bit about history [...

Part 2 of the Brazilian Odyssey

Posted on September 06, 2010
David Cassuto I flew Business Class on the way home.  Business Class is better than coach.  In fact, I?m seriously considering renaming my child Business Class.  I?ve also written several epic poems and elegies to Business Class and am thinking about getting a tattoo...

Animal Law CLE Opportunity

Posted on September 02, 2010
David Cassuto Some farm animal-related CLE from the good folks at the ABA.  Note the intriguing speaker lineup. Farmed Animal Welfare and Consumer Labeling Issues To Register: http://www.abanet.org/tips/market/10SepAnimalLawWeb.html Facebook page: http://www...

Salvador in Hindsight

Posted on September 02, 2010
David Cassuto The Brazilian tour has been and continues to be a whirlwind.  Here’s a first installment of updates, live from Brasilia but a few days behind in terms of news.  More soon. As Liz & Gloribelle?s posts make clear, the Salvador Conference was fab-o...

Some Preliminary Steps Toward Regulating Nonpoint Source Pollution

Posted on August 30, 2010
David Cassuto At long last, EPA is taking steps (or beginning to take them) toward addressing nonpoint source pollution of the nation’s waters.  Nonpoint sources are pretty much all those pollution sources that cannot be traced to the end of a pipe...

Powerful Final Day at the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights

Posted on August 30, 2010
Elizabeth Bennett The last day of the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights began with a heartfelt lecture by conference organizer Heron Santana on climate change and animal rights. Professor Santana spoke about the fact that citizens of Brazil are beginning to eat more meat and the country exports an increasing amount of [...

Live From the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights in Brazil

Posted on August 28, 2010
Elizabeth Bennett DAY 1 Ola from the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights.  First, I would like to say that I am very thankful that Pace Law School and the Center for Environmental Legal Studies provided me with the opportunity to attend this prestigious and world-renowned conference and for all of the conference [...

Fresh Faced Student at Animal Law Conference in Brazil

Posted on August 28, 2010
Gloribelle Perez Wednesday night (8.25.10), I had the honor of attending the opening reception of the Second World Conference on Bioethics and Animal Rights, which was held in the first capital of Brazil?Salvador, Bahia.  From a live band to Bahia?s movers and shakers of the political arena, the opening reception was superb...

The Nuge is a Poacher

Posted on August 25, 2010
David Cassuto Ted Nugent gets a real charge out of senseless violence against animals.  This is not news.  One need only tune in to his TV show to learn about his love of killing.  What is news is that Nugent broke the law while filming said show.  He killed underage deer using bait, both of [...

ABA-TIPS Animal Law Committee

Posted on August 23, 2010
David Cassuto I leave for Brazil anon but did not want to depart without a plug for the ABA-TIPS Animal Law Committee. It has done and continues to do an enormous amount to raise the profile and credibility of animal law within the larger legal community...

Captive Animals, Dead People, Bad Reporting

Posted on August 21, 2010
David Cassuto How many times have we heard the sad story of a captive wild animal killing someone?  This would be just another replay of the same sad and avoidable story except for a few details.  In this instance, which took place outside Cleveland, the guy who kept the unfortunate bear was not the person [...

International Animal Law ? A Website

Posted on August 19, 2010
David Cassuto Here (with a hat tip to the Animal Law Blog) is an interesting and useful site focusing on International Animal Law.

Help Wanted: HSUS Animal Law Litigator

Posted on August 18, 2010
David Cassuto Hey you litigators, here’s a good looking  job: JOB OPPORTUNITY The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) seeks an attorney with at least one year of relevant legal experience for a Staff Attorney position within the Animal Protection Litigation Section in our Washington, DC office...

Brazil Anew? The Animal Law Tour

Posted on August 16, 2010
David Cassuto Our hero heads back to Brazil next week.  First I’ll speak at the International Animal Law Conference in Salvador.   The conference also features a student forum where, I’m delighted to report, Pace 3L, Elizabeth Bennett, will present a paper on factory farming...

Research Hunts & Conservation Hunts: New Ways to Fetishize Wolf Slaughter

Posted on August 15, 2010
David Cassuto Not too long ago, I blogged about the duplicity of Japan’s “research” hunting of whales.  It amounts to a disingenuous attempt to circumvent the global ban on whale killing by pretending the slaughter has some scientific purpose...

Cassuto: The Podcast

Posted on August 14, 2010
The Self-Promotion Desk is back on the job.  Our hero is featured on this week’s podcast from the wonderful folks over at Our Hen House!   We discuss all kinds of cool stuff — from Brazil to the friction between enviro and animal advocates, to teaching animal law...

Celebrities, Chimps, Vivisection ? The Back From Vacation Blog Post

Posted on August 14, 2010
David Cassuto Well, I’m back from vacation and I have a few things to report.  First, one of my favorite places: “Milsurp’s Surplus and More” has closed.  I have no idea what they sold there, never having ventured in.  Still, just knowing there was a place that was able to differentiate between surplus and more [...

One Million Pounds of Cow Flesh Recalled

Posted on August 06, 2010
David Cassuto That’s 2,300 cows.  Killed for absolutely nothing.  Well, not nothing — to get blamed for making people sick.  I wonder if anyone would have gotten sick if no one had pumped them full of antibiotics and corn and then killed them...

A New & Welcome Chapter in the Wolf Saga

Posted on August 05, 2010
David Cassuto I’ve blogged a fair bit about the ill-advised delisting of gray wolves as endangered species in the northern Rockies, as well as about the lawsuit that followed.  When last we left the story, the district court had denied a preliminary injunction that would have stopped the wolf hunts that subsequently took place in [...

EPA Region 2 ? Taking It To the CAFOs

Posted on August 05, 2010
David Cassuto The news release speaks for itself: Region 2 Issues a Class II Administrative Complaint to a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation for Illegal Discharges and Numerous Permit Violations On July 15, 2010, Region 2 issued an Administrative Complaint against Wilkins Dairy Farm, LLC (?Respondent?) for several violations of the Clean Water Act and the [...

A Little More Veg Rhetoric

Posted on August 05, 2010
David Cassuto I have resolved that when I see a particularly well-argued piece for either side, I will flag it here.  So here‘s Bruce Friedrich making the argument against meat.

New Book: THE ANIMAL, WITHIN THE SPHERE OF HUMANS? NEEDS

Posted on August 03, 2010
David Cassuto Cool new book (including a piece by our hero) coming out of the cool international animal law conference held in Montreal last year. THE ANIMAL, WITHIN THE SPHERE OF HUMANS’ NEEDS edited by Martine Lachance, International Research Group in Animal Law (GRIDA) More than one year after the Montreal?s first international animal law conference, it is with great [...

Torturing Beagles Because They?re Nice Dogs

Posted on August 01, 2010
David Cassuto I’ve been bothered by this article in U.S.A. Today since I read it last week.  The article, which talks about the rescue and subsequent adoption of some 120 beagles who were vivisected has the typical feel-good, happy-ending narrative one often sees in articles of this type...

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