{"id":1640,"date":"2011-03-31T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jlpp.org\/old_blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2011-03-31T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:57:29","slug":"the-price-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/2011\/03\/31\/the-price-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price is Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlpp.org\/old_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bob-barker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150 alignleft\" title=\"bob-barker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jlpp.org\/old_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bob-barker.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The price is wrong! Bob Barker, you know it!\n\nThe price\u2014the dollars and cents we pay when we buy animal products\u2014is really wrong.&nbsp; Meat, eggs, milk, cheese, and all other sorts of animal foods that so many Americans buy so regularly are, in general, shockingly less expensive than market trends would predict.\n\nThe sorcery of factory farming, fueled by agribusiness subsidies, churns out astonishingly cheap meat.&nbsp; In <em>Eating Animals<\/em>, Jonathan Safran Foer writes: \u201cIn the past fifty years, as factory farming spread from poultry to beef, dairy and pork producers, the average cost of a new house increased nearly 1,500%; new cars climbed more than 1,400 %; but the price of milk is up only 350%, and eggs and chicken meat haven\u2019t even doubled.&nbsp; <strong>Taking inflation in account, animal protein costs less today than at any time in history<\/strong>.\u201d\n\nSo animal protein costs less today than at any time in history, but <em>eating<\/em> animal protein costs more today than at any time in history.&nbsp; The price Americans pay for eating animal protein\u2014in terms of personal health, public health, environmental and ecological health, the health and safety of factory farm workers, and our moral health\u2014is more expensive than ever.\n\nAs to the last point\u2014America\u2019s moral health vis-\u00e0-vis animals\u2014Bob Barker of <em>The Price is Right!<\/em> exquisiteness, is working his own sorcery.&nbsp; He knows there is serious moral dissonance in raising, slaughtering, and consuming animals the way we do today, to satisfy our appetites.&nbsp; And Bob thinks law schools can help.&nbsp; Taimie Bryant, Professor of Law at UCLA, wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swlaw.edu\/pdfs\/jle\/jle602bryant.pd\">article<\/a> recently on the endowed gifts Bob Barker has given to select law schools (not ours) for consistent Animal Rights courses, symposia, and scholarship.\n\nThere are two important questions I am posing: (1) How can law and policy be mobilized so that when American consumers chose to buy and eat animal protein, they are forced to confront the negative externalities and moral conflicts inherent in that choice?&nbsp; (2) What is the value of permanent Animal Rights study at American law schools, and how might it be seen as complimentary to other rights-based law and environmental law education?&nbsp; (And Bob, would you think of Cornell Law School?)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price is wrong! Bob Barker, you know it! The price\u2014the dollars and cents we pay when we buy animal products\u2014is really wrong.&nbsp; Meat, eggs, milk, cheese, and all other sorts of animal foods that so many Americans buy so regularly are, in general, shockingly less expensive than market trends would predict. The sorcery of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[135,136,228,562,568,1191,1264,1349],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-blogs","tag-animal-law","tag-animal-rights","tag-bob-barker","tag-endowments","tag-environmental-law","tag-plinko","tag-public-policy","tag-sarah-hack"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publications.lawschool.cornell.edu\/jlpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}