Animal agriculture, subsidies and sustainable food policy
Amnon Keren, TAU
Please join us for our next Monday departmental seminar on the 17th of April from 15:00 to 16:00 at the Porter Auditorium
Animal agriculture, subsidies and sustainable food policy
Amnon Keren, TAU
Abstract
Subsidies are a common governmental intervention aimed to secure the production and affordability of public goods, including agriculture. However, subsidies can also become a harmful mechanism when they provide incentives for activities that have negative environmental and social impacts, distort decisions regarding the use of resources, and lead to overproduction and consumption. The discourse on environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS) has gained attention in recent years, and in the context subsidizing fossil fuels, was described by the US convoy to CoP 26 as the "definition of insanity". With food systems responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emission, this critical framework should be applied also to the ways in which we produce food, most notably in intensive animal agriculture
This seminar will analyze the forms and scope of governmental subsidies allocated to the livestock industry and animal agribusiness in Israel, and their environmental, social and economic impacts. Through a comparative review, it will also examine ways in which this mechanism could serve as an opportunity for transformation towards building a sustainable, healthy and equitable food system
BIO
Amnon Keren is a lawyer and clinical instructor at the clinic for Environmental Justice and Protection of Animal Rights at Tel Aviv University's faculty of law, and a member of the Israeli Forum for Sustainable Nutrition. He received his LL.B from the College of Law & Business (2015), as a graduate of the Human Rights Division and the Clinic for Environmental and Social Change. He has also been engaged for over two decades in public and legal work for the promotion of human rights, animal rights and environmental protection
Alon Shepon
The Department of Environmental Studies
The Porter School of the Environment and Earth Science
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The Israeli Forum for Sustainable Nutrition
