Inside the legal fight against animal farming

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Today's guest:

Since recording this episode, the UK government has presented its new Animal Welfare Strategy. One of the things that is set to be banned is the boiling alive of lobsters and crabs. This an issue that Edie Bowles and her team have been campaigning on, taking the legal fight to the UK government and compelling them to change the welfare laws around crustaceans.

Edie Bowles is an accomplished animal law solicitor and co-founder of both Advocates for Animals (AFA) - the UK’s first animal protection law firm - and The Animal Law Foundation (ALF), a charity that researches and advocates for better enforcement and interpretation of animal protection laws.

Edie began her career in intellectual property law and heard little about animal law as a career option during university. Once she discovered it was possible to turn her passion for animals into a profession, she made the switch, spending several years as a solicitor with Cruelty Free International before founding AFA and ALF.

You can find more about Edie's work here:

https://www.advocates-for-animals.com/
https://animallawfoundation.org/
Social media handle: @AnimalLawFDN

Today's topics:

Can the #law take on animal #farming? In this episode, I sit down with #animal law solicitor Edie Bowles who explains how the law is being used to protect animals, the battles being fought behind the scenes, and what it could mean for the future of farming.

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🕒 Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction from me
00:46 Introduction to Edie Bowles
02:25 What is the Animal Law Foundation?
04:03 What were the first animal welfare laws?
07:04 How do we have more laws but also more animal farming now?
12:45 Could the government water down welfare laws to protect farmers?
17:55 Should boiling lobsters alive be illegal?
24:55 Does the wording of animal welfare laws help or hurt animals?
27:53 Is the animal farming industry complacent about legal challenges?
29:48 Can we ban imports of products that don’t meet UK welfare standards?
33:54 Are animal welfare laws being properly enforced?
38:20 Can the law be used to challenge misinformation around animal farming?
49:29 Is it rational to believe that we can meaningfully hold animal farming legally accountable?
56:30 Can the law embolden whistleblowers and enforcers?
59:05 Should the vegan community celebrate welfare changes more?
01:03:40 Ending and outro

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About Ed:

Ed Winters is a best-selling author, vegan educator, public speaker and host of The Disclosure Podcast. Ed has spoken at over 1/3 of UK universities and at every Ivy league college, including as a guest lecturer and Media & Design Fellow at Harvard University.