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oapen-20.500.12657-768762023-10-20T02:11:41Z Empty Fields, Empty Promises Ashwood, Loka Diamond, Danielle Franco, Allen Imlay, Aimee Kuehn, Lindsay United States right to farm laws agricultural nuisance, trespass, and negligence takings of rural property rights agricultural law and the rural burden agrarian democracy foreign ownership in agriculture agribusiness Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations rural poverty and rural racial minorities environmental justice distribution of ownership in food and agricultural production monopoly and oligopoly power in agriculture humane treatment of animals in industrial agriculture decline of U.S. farmers industrial agriculture pollution public and community health effects of industrial agriculture sociology of food and agriculture environmental sociology rural sociology global corporate agribusinesses bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies::JFCV Food & society bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSF Rural communities bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPR Regional government::JPRB Regional government policies The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws. It reveals that they generally benefit the largest operators, like processing plants, while traditional farmers benefit the least. Disfavored most of all are those seeking to defend their homes and environment against multinational corporations that use right-to-farm laws to strip neighboring owners of their property rights. Through what the book calls the "midburden," right-to-farm laws dispossess the many in favor of the few, paving the path to rural poverty. Empty Fields, Empty Promises summarizes every state's right-to-farm laws to help readers track and navigate their local and regional legal landscape. The book concludes by offering paths forward for a more distributed and democratic agrifood system that achieves agricultural, rural, and environmental justice. 2023-10-19T07:43:50Z 2023-10-19T07:43:50Z 2023 book ONIX_20231019_9798890863652_14 9798890863652 9781469674605 9781469674599 9781469674582 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76876 eng Rural Studies Series application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9798890863652.pdf 9781469674612.epub The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469674612 10.5149/9781469674612 165ebb72-a81f-4229-898c-5f49a35f306e a975de44-92c8-4ef6-89a7-e569f889939c 233df225-0b97-4416-9d9b-a3f139e8469b 9798890863652 9781469674605 9781469674599 9781469674582 The University of North Carolina Press 304 Chapel Hill [...] [...] University of Kentucky UK open access
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The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to limit nuisance suits loosely related to agriculture. But since their adoption, there has yet to be a comprehensive analysis of what these laws do and who they benefit. This book offers the first national analysis and guide to these laws. It reveals that they generally benefit the largest operators, like processing plants, while traditional farmers benefit the least. Disfavored most of all are those seeking to defend their homes and environment against multinational corporations that use right-to-farm laws to strip neighboring owners of their property rights. Through what the book calls the "midburden," right-to-farm laws dispossess the many in favor of the few, paving the path to rural poverty. Empty Fields, Empty Promises summarizes every state's right-to-farm laws to help readers track and navigate their local and regional legal landscape. The book concludes by offering paths forward for a more distributed and democratic agrifood system that achieves agricultural, rural, and environmental justice.
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