Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program Year in Review 2019-2020

Animal Law & Policy Program | Harvard Law School | Year in Review 2018–2019
Helen Harwatt
ALPP Food & Climate Policy Fellow
MARCH 2020
The Milk Situation – Americans Have Been
Souring on Dairy Milk for Decades. Here’s
How Farmers are Trying to Win Them Back
New York Times
On March 16, Helen Harwatt, ALPP’s Food
& Climate Policy Fellow, was quoted in a
New York Times article on the environmental
impacts of dairy. “Dairy is the second highest
emitting livestock product accounting for 4
percent of all global emissions,” she said. She
added that farming almonds for almond milk
is “much less” harmful to the environment,
as almond milk takes half as much water to
make than the same amount of dairy, and
produces a quarter of the emissions.
DECEMBER 2019
Scientists Call for Renewed Paris
Pledges to Transform Agriculture
The Lancet Planetary Health
In December, The Lancet Planetary
Health published an open call to action
Helen spearheaded––convening over
50 of the world’s top climate scientists
to urge the inclusion of key “Peak Meat”
animal agriculture measures in revised
commitments to the Paris Agreement. This
call to action was coordinated to coincide
with the UN Climate Change Conference
(COP25) in Madrid.
Helen’s article generated substantial
international media coverage in outlets that
included: CNN, CBS News, The Guardian,
Salon, Independent, and The Hill, along
with a live interview she did with BBC
World News.
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