The Farmed Animal Advocacy Clinic (FAAC) empowers students to become effective advocates for animals while developing skills that can be applied in a variety of arenas throughout their careers, through hands-on experience with real-world matters. Students, led by the Clinic Director, represent clients in litigation as well as legislative, regulatory, and policy matters, aimed at improving the treatment and status of farmed animals.
Clinic projects vary each semester, and may include challenging the USDA’s slaughter deregulation efforts, furthering efforts to require industrial agriculture to internalize their environmental and economic costs, assisting Vermont farmers to move from animal to plant-based agriculture, providing training for law enforcement and animal welfare professionals, and lobbying for stronger protections for animals.
Books can be located through the VLGS Library catalog.
Databases can be found on the Databases Page of this LibGuide.
Some useful Search Terms:
VLGS's Environmental Law Research Sources (ELRS), a collection of free environmental legal research resources, links to carefully selected web sites. A sample of resources relating to farmed animals found in ELRS is listed below.
Check out other subject categories including Agriculture Law , Animal Law, and Food Law for additional resources.