Ag-gag and Hannah

Ag-gag and Hannah

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Recently in the papers there's been some speculation that the ag-gag laws may be revoked. In fact in the Idaho Statesman there was an editorial piece that began with the statement "We can't think of any legitimate reason why the state of Idaho filed an appeal to overturn a federal ruling against the misguided ag-gag law, which was designed to thwart the secretive filming of agricultural practices and penalize whistleblowers with fines and possible jail time. Animal Agriculture Alliance spokesperson Hannah Thompson: "There are a lot of groups out there that put out a lot of misinformation about the industry because they know consumers are disconnected from the food supply, they don't have a lot of exposure to it or first-hand knowledge. So these activists whose and the goal is to turn people away from eating meat, to end the animal agriculture industry are willing to use a lot of different tactics in doing that. These undercover videos we see is one tactic they are using. They either take incidents out of context, they take industry practices that they may not be familiar with and put dark lighting and ominous music to make them look like something that they are not. In very rare cases there are instances of abuse but rather than turn them in immediately, they wait for weeks or months so that they can hit the news cycle just right and get a lot of attention for their cause. Unfortunately they are not really about protecting animals or animal care, they are about damaging and eventually ending the industry.
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