hog farming

by Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA The current issue of Mother Jones offers an article on the troubling and growing list of State "gag laws" which make it a crime to disclose contamination and abuse in animal breeding and slaughter houses.  Ted Genoways in "Gagged by Big Ag," describes the events and players leading to: laws (enacted in 8 states and introduced in 15 more) are viewed by many as undercutting—and even criminalizing—the exercise of First Amendment rights by investigative reporters and activists, whom the industry accuses of "animal and ecological terrorism." A colleague alerted me to…