Empty Fields, Empty Promises A State-by-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm

• Main Author: Ashwood, Loka (auth)
• Other Authors: Diamond, Danielle (auth), Franco, Allen (auth), Imlay, Aimee (auth), Kuehn, Lindsay (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2023
• Series: Rural Studies Series
• Subjects: Food & society; Rural communities; Regional government policies; 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
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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 an...