Well this is not good! Ed at The Deets picks up on a Minnpost item about two new bills introduced in the MN Legislature to make it, as the Humane Society describes it, legal to prosecute whistle blowers who expose animal cruelty in factory farms. (The bills, which are online, also go into several details about other forms of tampering as well.) The Deets points out that two authors in the Minnesota Legislature are themselves farmers.
April 11, 2011 at 12:23 pm
I say make ’em squeal like pigs.
April 11, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I bet they don’t propose a bill cutting spending on the biggest welfare recipients in the country called farmers. I have a hard time dealing with republican farmers. They have got to be the biggest hypocrites in politics. Now they want to be able to abuse animals without the press being able to report on it. Give me a break. Someone needs to let them know about “free markets” (something a farmer would know nothing about) and that is the ability for the market-place to have free flowing information. I guess the consuming public has not interest in knowing what is going on with our food supply. I sure feel better knowing that these clowns are utilizing their power to hide the truth about how our food supply is being produced and maintained.
April 11, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Too bad ACORN and NPR wasn’t covered by laws like this.
Swandog: No more food for you. Let the “free market” feed and clothe you, you hater. (g)
April 11, 2011 at 1:00 pm
“My message is simple – if you have nothing to hide; you have nothing to fear:” says Kristi
You’ll get an earful from someone if you make the same statement about the Patriot Act.
Too bad ACORN and NPR wasn’t covered by laws like this.
Would you want that?
April 11, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Rat: I don’t get upset about James O’Keefe’s little hidden camera stunts. I’m not surprised when Limbaugh, Drunge Report of Fox News runs with it. I am little disapointed in how some mainstream media run these things without first fact-checking or offering context.
He is what he ishandiwork just to illustrate how even a relatively stand-up organization like National Public Radio can be made to look like dimwits by simplely capturing a single dimwit employee on hidden camers
April 11, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Opps. Messed that comment up. Who’s the dimwit now?