It's really terrible when consumers get informed about the practices of businesses. There oughta be a law!

Examples are listed, but none took place in Florida. They include "organizations such as the Humane Society" which sent an undercover investigator to a corporate egg farm in Texas "under the pretext of working for the farm for 28 days in 2010."

It sounds like we need to ban people from working on farms to be truly effective.

Biatches don't know bout Albritton's lemon parties.

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Flint Ironstag: What happens when a Cop drives onto a farm with his dash cam recording?

They both cover it up and pretend it didn't happen?

Why do they think these laws will discourage activists? They can just anonymously upload to any number of websites to get the word out.

Flint Ironstag: What happens when a Cop drives onto a farm with his dash cam recording?

Just don't record him doing it and you're in the clear.

Smaller government*

*some restrictions may apply

keylock71: Can't have people seeing the truth about how their food is produced, I guess...

He is simply protecting trade secrets. If the Mexicans and Chinese find out it will mean a loss of American jobs.

FriarReb98: If it's a privately owned company....why would you need a law to enforce something you could write in as a condition of employment and get away with? I know it's crazy and all, but it just seems to me they can actually ban it without a law....

With a law in place in addition to company policy, a wage slave who steps out of line would lose their job AND go to jail, thus making it that much harder for them to get a new job (especially if said wage slave intends to get a job that pays above minimum wage)

After reading his statement, this is what filtered out for me:

"Fark human rights, animal abuse and legal working conditions. I'm a small government guy."

Farming is dirty business, even legal. I grew up on a farm. You make looking for abuses illegal though, Then there is no stopping abuses, and there are a lot of abuses that can be exploited...

The flash on cameras can scare the animals. Only terrorists take pictures of animals.

Yeah a lot of farmers are scumbags just like the rest of the criminal business-class.

Flint Ironstag
What happens when a Cop drives onto a farm with his dash cam recording?

Shoot 'em? Just a thought. Actually the bill/proposed legislation is garbage.

Wouldn't this stomp on existing whistleblower protection laws?

Oh and
Flint Ironstag: Oh and it's typical that he is going after people who might report lawbreaking and animal mistreatment. You see, a decent lawmaker would go after the farmers breaking the law and mistreating animals....

This, a million times this.

And by "small government" he means "government of the rich and powerful, by the rich and powerful and for the rich and powerful".

Fark the 99%.

This was never a problem with illegal immigrant workers.

HotWingConspiracy: Why do they think these laws will discourage activists? They can just anonymously upload to any number of websites to get the word out.

And the anonymous photograph will be dismissed as an obvious photo-shop that is inadmissible in court.

I'm surprised NC legislators aren't considering something like this; just a few weeks ago, animal rights people dressed up as chicken farm workers and took photos of the conditions on the farm, then gave them to the Agriculture Commissioner, who then raided the farm with inspectors.

Oh, and one of the commissioner's own staff members warned the farm owners before the raid took place, yet they still found violations on the farm. Makes you wonder how bad conditions were before the call was made...

meat0918: Wouldn't this stomp on existing whistleblower protection laws?

Knowing Republicans, that's probably the point.

The real question is what the hell does a citrus grower have that needs covering up?

While this is stupid, it's only proposed legislation. Food libel laws are on the books in Florida and twelve other states.

So he doesn't want people taking pictures of him slaughtering citrus? I bet PETF is really pissed (People for the Ethical Treatment of Fruit).

LeoffDaGrate: So he doesn't want people taking pictures of him slaughtering citrus? I bet PETF is really pissed (People for the Ethical Treatment of Fruit).

Aren't they the militant offshoot of GLAAD?

Fart_Machine: While this is stupid, it's only proposed legislation. Food libel laws are on the books in Florida and twelve other states.

Amazing, isn't it?

turbidum: The real question is what the hell does a citrus grower have that needs covering up?

I don't know about citrus growers but have you ever seen what happens on carrot farms? To you it might be harvest day but to them it is the holocaust. Let the rabbits wear glasses! These people need to be exposed. This is necessary.

FriarReb98: If it's a privately owned company....why would you need a law to enforce something you could write in as a condition of employment and get away with? I know it's crazy and all, but it just seems to me they can actually ban it without a law....

Because if an activist potographed mistreatment of animals as an employee, the only repercussion he would face is the loss of his job. This is necessary so that whistleblowers can be prosecuted.

sprawl15: LeoffDaGrate: So he doesn't want people taking pictures of him slaughtering citrus? I bet PETF is really pissed (People for the Ethical Treatment of Fruit).

Aren't they the militant offshoot of GLAAD?

*rimshot*

If you saw the way they torture those oranges and grapefruits, you would never eat breakfast again! Fruits are people too! (No, not those fruits. Of course they're not people!) Join PETCF (People for the Ethical Treatment of Citrus Fruits) today!

Dammit, I forgot which side I'm trying to troll...

turbidum: The real question is what the hell does a citrus grower have that needs covering up?

They make juice by squeezing the oranges between their buttcheeks.

Trust me, I grew up on a farm.

Darth Macho: turbidum: The real question is what the hell does a citrus grower have that needs covering up?

They make juice by squeezing the oranges between their buttcheeks.

Trust me, I grew up on a farm.

Without pictures, how am I supposed to be informed enough to choose which farmer's ass juice I want to be buying? I mean, are they hot?

Last Tuesday I had a validation at my farm for a new regulatory program the canadian government is bringing in for dairy farms. Since we knew it was coming everything was perfect in the barn. The inspection was over at 1. If an animal rights activist had walked in at 3 we would have been facing animal cruelty charges. Why? A heifer had broken a waterline and flooded her pen.

The point of my anecdote is that things can go from Grade A to "animal cruelty" very quickly. The consumer won't get the info that I moved the heifer to a dry pen as soon as I got there, they'll get the activists' narrative,.

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In other news:

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Monday for the first time that law enforcement must obtain a warrant before using a global positioning system (GPS) device to track suspects.

The high court said that GPS tracking amounted to a search, and the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The ruling comes as a defeat for the Obama administration,

Keep pretending the dems are better

hope and change.

amishkarl: Last Tuesday I had a validation at my farm for a new regulatory program the canadian government is bringing in for dairy farms. Since we knew it was coming everything was perfect in the barn. The inspection was over at 1. If an animal rights activist had walked in at 3 we would have been facing animal cruelty charges. Why? A heifer had broken a waterline and flooded her pen.

The point of my anecdote is that things can go from Grade A to "animal cruelty" very quickly. The consumer won't get the info that I moved the heifer to a dry pen as soon as I got there, they'll get the activists' narrative,.

But your narrative is to be blindly trusted?

LeoffDaGrate: So he doesn't want people taking pictures of him slaughtering citrus? I bet PETF is really pissed (People for the Ethical Treatment of Fruit).

And I got beat to the punch. Screw it, I'm gonna go find some work to do.

Government so small that it fits inside a uterus

Small government! Stop tyranny! protect freedom!

/so long as it is freedom for special interests to get special treatment under the law.