�Animal Colonialism: The Case of Milk�
New article of interest: Mathilde Cohen, � Animal Colonialism: The Case of Milk ,� American Journal of International Law Unbound (September 2017) Volume 111: 267-271. [Being a vegan, and with a significant portion of my worldview best described as Marxist,* I�m predisposed to find the argument in this very short article congenial. No doubt others will view it differently.] The first two paragraphs: �Greta Gaard writes that � [t]he pervasive availability of cows � milk today � from grocery stores to gas stations � is a historically unprecedented product of industrialization, urbanization, culture, and economics. � To these factors, I would add colonialism and international law; the latter understood broadly to include the rules considered binding between states and nations, transnational law, legal transplants, international food aid, and international trade law. Until the end of the Nineteenth Century, the majority of the world population neither raised animals for their milk nor