Green Is The New Red
April 2011
[Ed. Note: The more power animal-abusing corporations gain, and the more
power they have in city, county, state and federal legislations, the more
animal activists are threatened with penalties for exposing their greed,
their violence and their lack of regard for LIFE!]
[Ed. Note: Take action -
Tell Minnesota Legislators Your Concerns About House File No. 1369.]
Not surprisingly, this bill includes provisions for civil recovery and equitable relief, so that corporations can force activists to compensate them for any revenue lost due to the exposure of their violence.
New legislation proposed in Minnesota [April 2011] attempts to crack down
on activists who have exposed repeated animal welfare violations. Among its
provisions, the bill targets anyone who documents an “image or sound” of
animal suffering in a sweeping list of “animal facilities,” including
factory farms, animal experimentation labs, and puppy mills.
But House File No. 1369 doesn’t stop there. The bill, introduced by six
Republicans, also includes a number of other provisions that have popped up
in “eco-terrorism” bills and “animal enterprise terrorism” laws over the
years. Similar legislation has also been introduced in Florida and Iowa to
target undercover investigators.
The Minnesota bill includes a number of dangerous parts. Among the most
important:
The bill also includes parallel provisions for “crop operation
interference,” “crop operation tampering,” and “crop operation fraud.”
All of this, of course, is part of a continued campaign by these
corporations, and the politicians who represent them, to attack and silence
their opponents. Groups like Mercy For Animals, PETA, Compassion Over
Killing, and the Humane Society have repeatedly exposed systemic animal
welfare violations in factory farms and other facilities. When people learn
want goes on in these facilities, and see for themselves, they change what
they buy. It’s a serious and effective threat to corporate profits.
Not surprisingly, this bill includes provisions for civil recovery and
equitable relief, so that corporations can force activists to compensate
them for any revenue lost due to the exposure of their violence.
And the people behind it? Representative Rod Hamilton, for instance, is past
president of the Minnesota Pork Producers, and a current member.
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