08/04/2015
for animals. π | FINALLY, FIRST TIME Law Ruled in Federal Court/Idaho. π‘ Court says, violation of and --GOOD JOB...And further, that INDUSTRY STANDARDS do not impose or require a more heightened protection in allowing Idaho to criminalize honest reporters disclosing to the American people what kind of meat and food we're eating when we go the store to prepare dinner, and informing us that maybe routine mutilation of animal body parts while alive and without anesthesia, while abusing farm workers and calling this ethical practice -- PERHAPS ISNT ETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICE OR COMMON LAW.
| more here: Says, Legal Defense Fund: 'Undercover video and photography has exposed numerous shocking practices that are βindustry standards.β These pervasive, systematic procedures include routine mutilation, including debeaking birds with electrically heated blades and castrating male animals by slicing open their sc***um and ripping their testicles out without pain relief or anesthesia and intensive confinementβwhere animals are literally unable to turn around for months on end. Exposes have also detailed the sickening farming conditions resulting in contaminated meat productsβposing serious health risks to the publicβand life threatening conditions for farm workers.
The statute [here, found unconstitutional] criminalizes undercover investigations that document animal welfare, worker safety, and food safety violations at an βagricultural production facility,β thus βgaggingβ speech that is critical of industrial agriculture, including speech that advances significant public interests in protecting Idahoansβ safety. Under this law, journalists, workers, activists, and members of the public can be convicted for documenting animal cruelty or life-threatening safety violations. The court ruled that this statute violates the First Amendment by suppressing speech that criticizes factory farms and was motivated by unconstitutional animus against animal advocatesβwhich is a violation of the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.' | π‘ Idaho βAg-Gagβ Law APPROPRIATELY Ruled Unconstitutional in Federal Court | Animal Legal Defense Fund http://aldf.org/press-room/press-releases/idaho-ag-gag-law-ruled-unconstitutional-in-federal-court/
Victory for animals: District Court rules anti-whistleblower law violates U.S. Constitution.