Our meat production focuses on profit at any price – ecological and social costs are neglected. Katharina Pistor argues for an alternative system: ‘Organizing for change’. Animals should no longer be regarded merely as capital, but should be at the center of a system that protects the earth and regenerates resources.

Pistor wants to break down the boundaries between market and state and between private and common property. Her approach: a new legal system that brings people, animals and the environment into harmony. This will create a world in which sustainability and respect for nature become a living reality.

Katharina Pistor is Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Co-Director of the Center for Political Economy at Columbia University in New York. She is a co-winner of the Max Planck Research Prize (2012) and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg and European Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

In cooperation with the Max Planck Institute.