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Textbox: Internalizing Externalities: Techniques to Reduce Ecological Impacts of Food Production

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Government regulation is only one technique to internalize a pollution impact (externality) from food production. When it leads to deregulation it typically does not solve the ecological impact or pollution problem.

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    The editor has previously published excerpts of this introduction in Gabriela Steier, Externalities in Industrial Food Production: The Costs of Profit, 3 Dartmouth Law Journal 9, available at: http://works.bepress.com/gabriela_steier/1 and at http://www.dartmouthlawjournal.org/archives/9.3.6.pdf (citing Jan G. Laitos & Joseph P. Tomain, Energy and Natural Resources Law 21 (West 1992)).

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    Steier, supra note i (citing Neal D. Fortin, The Hang-Up with HACCP: The Resistance to Translating Science into Food Safety Law, 58 Food & Drug L.J. 565 (2003)).

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    Steier, supra note i (citing Bryan Caplan, Externalities. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2008) Library of Economics and Liberty, http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Externalities.html (last visited Apr. 7, 2011)).

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    Steier, supra note i (citing John Steven Kreis, Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History, Lecture 21: The Utopian Socialists: Charles Fourier (1), http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture21a.html (last visited Apr. 1, 2011)).

  5. 5.

    Gabriela Steier, Externalities in Industrial Food Production: The Costs of Profit, 3 Dartmouth Law Journal 9, available at: http://works.bepress.com/gabriela_steier/1 and at http://www.dartmouthlawjournal.org/archives/9.3.6.pdf.

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    Steier, supra note i (citing Richard J. Pierce, JR. & Ernest Gellhorn, Regulated Industries 61 (West, 4th ed., 1999)).

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    Steier, supra note 1.

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    Steier, supra note i (citing Jan G. Laitos & Joseph P. Tomain, Energy and Natural Resources Law 21 (West 1992)).

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    Gabriela Steier, Externalities in Industrial Food Production: The Costs of Profit, 3 Dartmouth Law Journal 9, available at: http://works.bepress.com/gabriela_steier/1 and at http://www.dartmouthlawjournal.org/archives/9.3.6.pdf.

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Hayes, R. (2016). Textbox: Internalizing Externalities: Techniques to Reduce Ecological Impacts of Food Production. In: Steier, G., Patel, K. (eds) International Food Law and Policy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07542-6_16

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