Can products be banned for animal welfare? Intensive and unsustainable farming disregards animal welfare and represents a critical risk to both animals and humans. This article shows the relevance of animal welfare, animal health, and zoonotic diseases with reference to International Trade Law (ITL), making a serious attempt at establishing that animal husbandry methods fall under ITL. In the end, the article provides recommendations that can help countries abide by their own animal welfare

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... dards and restrict trade while following World Trade Organization (WTO) norms. Regulating animal husbandry will be crucial in preventing the next pandemic. A United Nations Environment Programme report published in July 2020 set out ways to prevent future pandemics, listing intensive and unsustainable farming as the key factor in the root causes of COVID-19. Before COVID-19, H1N1 had made its way to the world with intensively farmed pigs in North Carolina, giving a major push to animal welfare. ITL contains entry-points for these and similar considerations of animal welfare, as will be shown in the following sections.