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Arkansas Bill Would Let Businesses Sue Whistleblowers
The state's Senate is considering the bill and is expected to vote on it this week.
Idaho Has to Cough Up $250K for Its Unconstitutional Ag-Gag Law
Last year, a judge ruled that an Idaho ag-gag law violated the First and 14th Amendments. Now, the state has to shell out $250,000 to pay for legal fees incurred by PETA, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and a number of nonprofits in on the case.
North Carolina's Ag-Gag Law Might Be the Worst in the Nation
Critics of the law say it could prevent whistleblowers from reporting abuse in nursing home facilities or health and safety violations in the agricultural sector.
Ag-Gag Laws Prevent You From Knowing How the Sausage Gets Made
North Carolina is dangerously close to preventing agricultural industry whistleblowers from exposing animal cruelty, unsanitary conditions, and more.
If You're in Wyoming, Don't Take Pictures of Cattle Ranches
Environmentalists worry a new law could prevent 'citizen science' efforts aimed at collecting soil and water samples, or even taking photos, on public lands leased to ranchers.
There's More Than One Way to Kill a Rabbit
Whole Foods has recently introduced rabbit meat in a handful of its US stores, and bunny lovers are furious. The fact that Whole Foods is even offering rabbit is enough to set them off, but how those rabbits get slaughtered is another matter entirely.
Big Data Is Headed to Pasture, and Farmers Want to Cash In
As Monsanto and DuPont buy into the big data game, farmers wonder if collecting all this data leaves them vulnerable to an "overall-clad Snowden."
Animal-Cruelty Whistleblowers Are Fighting Legal Gag Orders
Idaho’s new law criminalizes activists who secretly record animal abuse in “agricultural production facilities.”
The Latest Push to Prove Ag-Gag Is Unconstitutional
The anti-gag law activists are getting quicker. This time, in Idaho.
'The Vegetarian People' File the First Lawsuit for The Right to Whistleblow on Farms
On Monday, the Animal Legal Defense Fund and PETA, among others, filed the first suit of its kind to legally challenge the development and spread of these laws, which shield industrial farming operations from whistleblowing.