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Speak Up Against Utah Bill That Hides Truth About Factory Farms
House Bill (H.B.) 187, which is currently making its way through the Utah House of Representatives, could subject whistleblowers to criminal prosecution for their efforts to expose animal abuse on factory farms. If passed, the bill would make it a crime to photograph or record video or sound of a farm without the farm owner's consent and could stop vital undercover work that exposes routine abuse of animals in the factory-farming industry. This absurd and unconstitutional bill, which infringes on Americans' basic rights, is a desperate attempt by agriculture industry giants to prevent consumers from learning the truth about the lives and deaths of animals on factory farms.
Past undercover investigations of factory farms, such as those conducted by PETA, have revealed that pigs were beaten with metal gate rods and spraypainted in the face, that sadistic employees stomped on and hurled turkeys, that animals were sexually abused, that dairy farmers repeatedly kicked and electro-shocked cows who were in too much pain to stand up, and much, much more. This bill is designed to shroud factory farming in secrecy, and it could deprive animals of the already minimal protection that they have under the law and hide from the public the truth about what happens behind the closed doors of factory farms.
