Post by ck4829 on Dec 27, 2016 1:30:49 GMT
Over the past few years, the farm industry and animal-agriculture lobby have been behind the introduction of "ag-gag" bills in more than half of all state legislatures across the country. These dangerous bills are designed to silence whistleblowers revealing animal abuses on industrial farms. Ag-gag type laws have been passed in seven states, criminalizing acts related to investigating the day-to-day activities of industrial farms, including the recording, possession or distribution of photos, video and/or audio at a farm.
Many successful animal welfare investigations have revealed severe abuses of animals and raised additional concerns about industrial farms, such as the potential contamination of eggs and meat. Such revelations have led to product recalls, decisions by retailers to drop suppliers, legal prosecutions of employees and hard questions posed to the animal agribusiness industry. That’s why a coalition of more than 70 national groups (spanning public health, environment, workers’ rights, sustainable farming and many other areas of focus) oppose ag-gag legislation.
It is worth noting that the use of exposés to reveal abuse has a long and storied history in America dating back to journalist Upton Sinclair's 1906 book The Jungle, which uncovered atrocious conditions inside America's meatpacking plants and led directly to the passage of the federal Meat Inspection Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the eventual formation of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare/what-ag-gag-legislation
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/burnoatus_anti-anthropocentrism/conversations/messages/1
Many successful animal welfare investigations have revealed severe abuses of animals and raised additional concerns about industrial farms, such as the potential contamination of eggs and meat. Such revelations have led to product recalls, decisions by retailers to drop suppliers, legal prosecutions of employees and hard questions posed to the animal agribusiness industry. That’s why a coalition of more than 70 national groups (spanning public health, environment, workers’ rights, sustainable farming and many other areas of focus) oppose ag-gag legislation.
It is worth noting that the use of exposés to reveal abuse has a long and storied history in America dating back to journalist Upton Sinclair's 1906 book The Jungle, which uncovered atrocious conditions inside America's meatpacking plants and led directly to the passage of the federal Meat Inspection Act, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the eventual formation of the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty/farm-animal-welfare/what-ag-gag-legislation
groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/burnoatus_anti-anthropocentrism/conversations/messages/1