Aaron C Timoshanko (Monash University – Faculty of Law) has posted Limitations of the Market-Based Approach to the Regulation of Farm Animal Welfare (University of New South Wales Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2015) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This article suggests that Australian consumers who are concerned about the care and treatment of farm animals are not able to reflect these values through their purchasing behaviour due to market, political and social considerations. Collectively these considerations disrupt or interfere with the transmission of animal welfare values into purchasing behaviour. For this reason, the regulation of farm animal welfare cannot be left to the market-based approach. Instead, government regulatory intervention is required in accordance with public interest theories of regulation.