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LEAP Research Assistant Zoe Robertson YC ’23 writes about how electrification reshaped the poultry industry and the transformation’s consequences. 

LEAP alums Manny Rutinel ’22 and Sebastian Quaade YC ’21 describe the viability of an emissions offset protocol that credits farms for transitioning from raising livestock to growing crops. 

LEAP Executive Director Viveca Morris is quoted by Unearthed about how an industry-funded academic research institute has become central to the agriculture sector’s PR and lobbying efforts.  

LEAP grant recipient Emily Tian discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court case about California's Proposition 12 might shape the future of farmed animal welfare.

In this guest post, Senior Research Scholar Jonathan Lovvorn discusses the U.S. Supreme court case about Proposition 12, California’s landmark law to address farm animal cruelty. 

LEAP Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Lovvorn discusses the pending Supreme Court case on Proposition 12, California’s landmark animal cruelty law. 

Law, Ethics & Animals research assistant Meredith Barges wrote an op-ed for CT Insider on the impact of light pollution on birds in Connecticut and what can be done to protect birds from fatal collisions. 

Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law Douglas Kysar, Faculty Co-Director of the Law, Ethics and Animals Program will appear on episodes 5 and 8 of a podcast about the legacies of a 2011 incident in Zanesville, Ohio, during which 50 exotic animals were killed by county police upon being released by their owner.