Graphic cow abuse video released as Idaho advances 'ag-gag' bill
By Paresh Dave
February 18, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
Ag-gag
From Wikipedia
アメリカなぞで、畜産家などで行われている動物虐待の映像がときどき放映されますけど、それってのは、動物の権利団体のメンバーが、従業員に応募して、それで、隠密に、撮影して暴露しちゃうわけですね。
で、そんなことされると、畜産農家に経済的打撃があるので、そうした、隠密撮影を禁止する法律がある州もあるそうであります。
By Paresh Dave
February 18, 2014, 6:30 p.m.
Striking back at a proposed Idaho law that would ban undercover filming at farms, an animal rights group released video Tuesday of a dairy worker sexually abusing a cow.
The graphic scene, recorded in 2012, was not initially released when Los Angeles-based Mercy for Animals pushed authorities to investigate animal abuse at Bettencourt Dairies in Idaho. The original video showed about two minutes of lashings, beatings and stompings suffered by cows.
The dairy quickly fired five people after that video was released and installed surveillance cameras throughout its facility. The man seen fondling a cow’s vagina in the newly released video eventually spent 102 days in jail.
Idaho lawmakers have proposed legislation to punish people who cause damage or videotape farm work after entering through force, threat, misrepresentation or trespass. It would be a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail or a $5,000 fine -- the same as convicted animal abusers.
The dairy industry says the law is needed to protect dairies from animal rights advocates who lie about their backgrounds on job applications so they can gain access to sites for filming. The bill's sponsor has compared the animal rights groups to terrorists, alleging that they seek economic damages as much as reforms by demanding that the dairies' corporate customers sever ties.
Ag-gag
From Wikipedia
アメリカなぞで、畜産家などで行われている動物虐待の映像がときどき放映されますけど、それってのは、動物の権利団体のメンバーが、従業員に応募して、それで、隠密に、撮影して暴露しちゃうわけですね。
で、そんなことされると、畜産農家に経済的打撃があるので、そうした、隠密撮影を禁止する法律がある州もあるそうであります。