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Environmental devastation, mass produced food products with little nutrients and big health concerns are just a few of the consequences related to outsourcing Americas farms to mega corps.
Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/environmental-news/the-financialisation-of-farmland-and-the-war-on-food-and-farming
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#the free thought project#tftp#farmland#farms#americas farms#mega corps#rural#corporations#mass produced
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#regional gothic#prairie#canadian gothic#midwest gothic#rural decay#rural gothic#rural america#rural canada#winter#autumn#rural#farm#farm field#train#train tracks
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abandoned barn
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I saw something sitting on your bed
I saw something touching your head
And in the room where you sleep
#southern goth aesthetic#southern gothic#gothic#farm#dark aesthetic#religious art#louisiana#midnight mass#rural gothic#rural america
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Wisconson Death Trip - Michael Lesy (1973)
#wisconson#photography#photography books#midwest#black and white#nineteenth century#rural america#farm
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𝒊 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍
may 26, 2024 - texas
#mine#unknownbarley#digicam#americana#rural america#southern aesthetic#texas#aesthetic#girl blogger#southern gothic#ethel cain#hayden anhedönia#american gothic#dark americana#regional gothic#ruralcore#rural aesthetic#rural gothic#rural#farmcore#farm#indie#anonymous#backroads
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"This week was a big win for animals across Mexico.
On December 2, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a set of constitutional reforms that will pave the way for a comprehensive federal animal welfare law. The changes represent the first-ever mention of nonhuman animals in the Mexican Constitution, marking a milestone achievement for Mexico’s animal rights movement, which has for years been drawing attention to pervasive animal cruelty and extreme confinement in the country’s growing meat industry.
“This is huge,” says Dulce Ramirez, executive director of Animal Equality Mexico and the vice president of Animal Equality’s Latin American operations. These constitutional changes come after two years of campaigning by animal advocacy organizations, including Igualdad Animal Mexico, Humane Society International/Mexico (HSI/Mexico), and Movimiento Consciencia.
These reforms are internationally unique. While national animal protection laws aren’t uncommon, most countries have no mention of animals in their Constitutions. Constitutions are “a reflection of socially where we are,” Angela Fernandez, a law professor at the University of Toronto, told Vox, making any constitutional reform symbolically a big deal.
Beyond Mexico, nine countries include references to animals in their Constitutions, but those mentions have generally been brief and open to interpretation. “Mexico is different,” Kristen Stilt, faculty director at Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Program, told Vox. “It’s longer, it’s more specific. It’s in several provisions. It’s not just a general statement.”
Plenty of countries have laws against animal mistreatment, including the US, where all 50 states have an anti-cruelty law, but that doesn’t mean they’ve been particularly effective at stopping violence against animals. Part of the problem is that these laws very often exempt farmed animals such as cows, pigs, and chickens, thereby excluding from protection the overwhelming majority of animals that suffer at human hands. That’s where Mexico’s reforms stand out: They’re intended to protect all animals, including farmed animals and other exploited species.
The reforms in Mexico, the world’s largest Spanish-speaking country, represent a major advancement in the status of animals globally. It could set a precedent for other countries in Latin America, where a vibrant animal rights movement has emerged in recent years, said Macarena Montes Franceschini, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Program.
Still, as one of the world’s top producers of beef, chicken, pork, dairy, and eggs, Mexico has an intensive animal agriculture industry much like the US, says Antón Aguilar, HSI/Mexico’s executive director. Business interests will undoubtedly want to influence the writing of animal welfare laws that could impact their bottom lines, as they have in the US and elsewhere. The question now is what changes the constitutional reforms will really bring to animal law in Mexico, and how effective they will be.
What will these reforms do?
The reforms comprise changes to three separate articles of Mexico’s Constitution. The most foundational change amends the Constitution’s Article 73, which dictates what Congress has the authority to legislate on. The article now gives the federal government the power to issue laws on animal welfare and protection.
Previously, animal welfare was largely left up to local and state authorities, and the result has been uneven laws and enforcement across the country. While all states in Mexico have animal protection legislation, just three include farmed animals: Hidalgo, Colima, and as of last month, Oaxaca, following pressure from animal advocates. And though Mexico does have a federal law on animal health that focuses on farmed animals and includes some broad mentions of animal welfare, it was created to protect human health rather than animals. The same goes for Mexico’s federal wildlife law, which was written with a focus on sustainability and conservation, rather than on protecting individual animals from cruelty.
Perhaps the most significant part of the reforms is an amendment to Article 4 of Mexico’s Constitution prohibiting the mistreatment of animals and directing the Mexican state to guarantee the protection, adequate treatment, and conservation and care of animals. The language is broad, Ramirez says, but she sees it as a substantial improvement over existing animal welfare laws. She and other advocates worked to ensure that no animals were excluded, particularly given that farmed animals have historically been left out of animal protection.
“It’s really, really important in Mexico to start with this first step — but a big one — because now it’s all animals” that are covered, Ramirez said.
The changes to Articles 4 and 73 tee up the creation of federal legislation on animal welfare. Under these reforms, Mexico’s Congress has been directed to write a first-of-its-kind General Law of Animal Welfare, Care, and Protection, a comprehensive bill that would address and develop regulations preventing the mistreatment of all types of animals, including farmed animals, wildlife, animals in laboratories, and companion animals, Aguilar said.
This general animal welfare law will need to consider animals’“nature, characteristics and links with people,” according to the reform decree released last week. What does this actually mean? Ramirez gave the example of chickens: Part of the natural behavior of these animals is to be able to spread their wings and move around. But if chickens are stuck in cages, as is standard practice on egg factory farms, they can’t do either of those things. Now, the idea is to develop legal criteria that would consider the ability to express these natural behaviors as part of their welfare. (The language could also be interpreted to prioritize human needs, however — particularly the reference to animals’ “links with people.” Animal Equality said it would interpret this through an animal welfare lens, and with the word “link” invoking what humans owe animals.)
Finally, Article 3 of Mexico’s Constitution, which pertains to the education system, was also amended to require that animal welfare be included in school curricula for grade school and high school students. Aguilar said this change could help “attitudes shift and change in a very enduring, long-term way” for future generations. But the new constitutional language is unspecific, and the devil is in the details.
What’s next for animal welfare in Mexico
Advocates in Mexico have two focuses going forward, Ramirez and Aguilar said: shaping the general animal welfare bill into a strong piece of legislation, and working with the Ministry of Education to get meaningful implementation of animal welfare into the national curriculum."
#mexico#north america#animal rights#animal welfare#animal cruelty#farming#farm animals#claudia sheinbaum#good news#hope
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Abandoned farmhouse in California
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Agave Tequila Fields, Jalisco, Mexico 🇲🇽
#jalisco#mexico#tequila fields#tequila#agave plant#agave#nature#beautiful planet#plants#fields#nature photography#landscape photography#landscape#november#fall#toya's tales#style#toyastales#toyas tales#art#farmland#farm labor#farm#north america
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they grow up so fast
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#mine#photography#rural gothic#southern gothic#american gothic#barns#farmcore#farm aesthetic#rural aesthetic#ruralcore#americana#small town america#grainy aesthetic#moody aesthetic#original photography#lensblr#country living#rural america#nikon photography#vsco
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“I could be a good mother and I wanna be your wife/so, I hold you to my knife and steal your letter.”
#coquette#lana del rey#vintage americana#americana#girlblogging#small town america#southern americana#ellie williams#farmhouse#farm ellie#the last of us#the last of us two#tlou#ellie tlou#ellie willams x reader#mother is mothering#dina tlou#ellie x dina#jj tlou
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Go into the woods and talk with them. They talk back. Once, the woods taught me how to dance. Now I am a dancer
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