1. The Politics of Food Agenda for Tuesday April 14
Carry-over: Diet Coke, FDA politics
Animal welfare
Key concepts
Interest groups
Federal legislation
State legislation and specific cases
Certification
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3. FDA Politics

4. Benefits Diffused Concentrated Majoritarian Client agencies
Entrepreneurial
Adversarial
Costs

5. FDA Politics
Remember: a lot of what FDA does favors diffuse interests over concentrated ones. The criticism over saccharin was for being cautious and following the law, not for caving to industry interests.

6. Animal welfare: background, concepts

10. The Five Freedoms

11. Interest Groups: Animal Welfare

12. Interest Groups: Animal Welfare

13. Interest Groups: Animal Welfare

15. Traditional Interest Groups: Animal Welfare
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1866)
American Humane Association (1877)
Humane Society of the U.S. (1954)
Animal Welfare Institute (1951)

16. Contemporary Interest Groups: Animal Welfare
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (1980)
Farm Sanctuary (1986)
Compassion Over Killing (1995)
Mercy for Animals (1999)

18. Federal Twenty-Eight Hour Law (1877)
Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (1958)
Animal Welfare Act (1966)

19. Humane Methods of Slaughter Act

22. Animal Welfare Act

25. States

27. Cage-free eggs

31. New California regulation (1/1/15)

32. Comparison of cage and cage-free egg systems
Annual production
270 eggs
259 eggs
Life span
115 weeks
80 weeks
Mortality rate 3% 8%

35. New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Revised Regulations

36. Other Countries

38. Discussion

41. If a technology were created that could eliminate the suffering of 1 human or X farm animals, it should be used to eliminate the suffering of 1 human. What is X?

42. For Thursday: Fair Trade Coffee chapters

43. Certification