States Considering Laws That Would Make it an Act of Terrorism to Report on Abuses at Factory Farms
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February , 2013
How
do you keep consumers in the dark about the horrors of factory farms?
By making it an “act of terrorism” for anyone to investigate
animal cruelty, food safety or environmental violations on the
corporate-controlled farms that produce the bulk of our meat, eggs
and dairy products.
And
who better to write the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act, designed
to protect Big Ag and Big Energy, than the lawyers on the Energy,
Environment and Agriculture Task Force at the corporate-funded and
infamous American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
New
Hampshire, Wyoming and Nebraska are the latest states to introduce
Ag-Gag laws aimed at preventing employees, journalists or activists
from exposing illegal or unethical practices on factory farms.
Lawmakers in 10 other states introduced similar bills in 2011-2012.
The laws passed in three of those states: Missouri, Iowa and Utah.
But consumer and animal-welfare activists prevented the laws from
passing in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York
and Tennessee.
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