Big Ag Wants To Make It a Crime to Expose Animal Abuse at Factory Farms

[indimuse]

Lawmakers in Florida and Iowa have introduced bills to establish criminal penalties for going undercover at agricultural facilities and simply taking pictures.


http://www.alternet.org/story/150312/big_ag_wants_to_make_it_a_crime_to_expose_animal_abuse_at_factory_farms?akid=6719.225075.L9cQX-&rd=1&t=27



gee..i wonder why...

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R for ethical treatment of animals

:kick:

[indimuse]

2. It's a disgrace , how we humans treat the anilmals of this world..

makes me cry... :(

[Blue Owl]

3. "factory farming" has made profit more important than humane/ethical behavior

Big, big mistake.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. It should be a capital crime to introduce such legislation.

Yes, really.

[indimuse]

5. agreed!

things keep getting stranger and stranger...

[drokhole]

6. Freedom of the Press?

This bill is bullshit for a multitude of reasons (all well articulated in the article), but does it in any way infringe on First Amendment rights?

[Coyote_Bandit]

7. Ummmm......

I grew up on a farm where we had dairy cattle, beef cattle, commercial egg production and a variety of crops. I am well aware that ***some*** in the agricultral industry abuse their animals. However, that is ***not*** a universal practice. I've known commercial egg producers for nearly 50 years and I have never once seen an operation where the chickens were confined to live their lives out in cages. All of the poultry had the ability to roam about - and weather permitting they had the ability to be outside in a secure area affording protection from predators. My family produced hatchery eggs. Our flock had not been sexed and we had a full complement of poultry of both sexes. It is ignorant to paint ***all*** farmers with the same broad brush and imply that all commercial farming operations are inhumane to the animals.

[JDPriestly]

8. Freedom of press and speech. Have they forgotten about those things?

[azul]

9. What are they hiding?

Unhappy meals? Or a world come off it's hinges, flopping around like a sadist's victim?