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New Hampshire, Wyoming and Nebraska are the latest states to introduce ALEC backed Ag-Gag laws aimed at preventing employees, journalists or activists from exposing illegal or unethical practices on factory farms. Lawmakers in 10 other states introduced similar bills in 2011-2012.  The laws passed in three of those states: Missouri, Iowa and Utah.  But consumer and animal-welfare activists prevented the laws from passing in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York and Tennessee.

In all, six states now have Ag-Gag laws, including North Dakota, Montana and Kansas, all of which passed the laws in 1990-1991, before the term “Ag-Gag” was coined.

Wyoming’s HB 0126 is the perfect example of a direct link between an undercover investigation of a factory farm and the introduction of an Ag-Gag law. The bill was introduced after nine factory workers were charged with animal cruelty following an undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States. HSUS activists videotaped workers kicking live piglets, swinging them by their hind legs and beating and kicking mother pigs. State Rep. Sue Wallis and Senator Ogden Driskill introduced the bill which would make it a criminal act to carry out investigations that exposed the cruelty at Wyoming Premium Farms.

The idea behind the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act is to make it illegal to “enter an animal or research facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other or other means with the intent to commit criminal activities or defame the facility or its owner.”

(Source: action4animals, via angryvegan)

ProPublica reporter Dave Philipps investigated why the Bureau of Land Management has sold so many horses to Tom Davis. The program is meant to maintain a sustainable balance among the herds. Like all buyers in the program, Davis signs a contract promising the 700 - 1,400 lb animals will not be slaughtered and insists he finds them good homes. But Davis is a longtime advocate of horse slaughter, and he refuses to disclose where the horses end up. Animal welfare advocates fear the horses he buys are being sent to Mexico for slaughter then shipped to Europe for food.

More; According to the BLM Davis accounted for 70% of their entire sale program. AND each horse ends up costing him $10. If the government shipped him 30 horses he would pay $300 DELIVERED but shipping a horse costs $5,000 taxpayer dollars. So let’s say that the government’s total expense is $35,000. He pays $300. Davis has enjoyed “a long business relationship” with the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar including trying to enlist the help of his brother, our state Department of Agriculture chief, to start his own horse slaughter plant next to his ranch in San Luis Valley, Colorado. 

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In organized cockfights, razor-sharp knives are often attached to the limbs of the fighting birds. In this gambling fight Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, was declared dead in Tulare County, central California some two hours after being injured.

Imagine that… a dude was killed by birds equipped to kill each other. WILD.

Now Louisiana, the last US state, has banned cockfighting. Truly remarkable. 

A Minneapolis park employee found a dead cat that had been burned and staked to a tree stump with an American flag with an Obama/Biden 2012 lawn sign planted next to it. No arrests have been made yet, but the Secret Service and FBI are investigating the matter. This is at least the second time someone has used violence against cats to send a political message this year. In January, an Arkansas Democratic campaign manager found his child’s cat murdered and “LIBERAL” scrawled on the dead body.

(Source: sarahlee310, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

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Fish suffer greatly when caught, farmed and killed for their flesh. While fisheries would like you to believe otherwise, numerous studies have found conclusive evidence that fish do feel pain. From the water to the cutting table, fish are tortured – suffocated, skinned and dismembered, all…

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