Factory Aquaculture vs. The Right to Food: The First Conflict on American Shores

dc.contributor.authorHeipt, Wendy
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-01T15:04:58Z
dc.date.available2023-05-01T15:04:58Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-28
dc.description36 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractWhile the human right to food, or the ability to access adequate amounts of appropriate and available food, is included in international treaties and has been adopted by numerous countries across the globe, until recently the right was not legally possessed by any American. That changed in November 2021 when the people of Maine approved a state constitutional right to food amendment. Now that Mainers have this right, questions of how it will be implemented, who will be impacted, and what laws and regulations it will change have been widely debated. This Article examines the possible impact Maine’s constitutional right to food can have on large-scale aquaculture. For the past several years, Maine has been the focus for multiple companies seeking to build and operate supersized salmon fish farms in the United States. With the adoption of Maine’s constitutional right to food, a new element has been introduced into the debate about large-scale aquaculture—one that can impact the legal rights of the fishermen and advocates seeking modifications or a halt to these plans. After defining the right to food, this Article explains the similarities between large-scale aquaculture projects and large-scale factory farms. Following an examination of the conflict between land-based factory farms and the right to food, this Article offers ideas of how Maine’s right to food amendment can impact the current aquaculture debate in the state.en_US
dc.identifier.citation38 J. Env’t. L. & Litig. 171en_US
dc.identifier.issn1049-0280
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/28218
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon School of Lawen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectRight to fooden_US
dc.subjectInternational treatiesen_US
dc.subjectConstitutional rightsen_US
dc.subjectFactory farmsen_US
dc.subjectMaine (United States)en_US
dc.titleFactory Aquaculture vs. The Right to Food: The First Conflict on American Shoresen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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