Farm Bureaus Warn About Undercover Investigations

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-06-01 18:14:00 UTC
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It's interesting how animal ag insists it has nothing to hide and yet goes to great lengths to keep its practices and facilities from the public view. "Be Wary of Unwanted Visitors," a Dairy Today blog post warned this past week. They might take photos and videos of all that stuff that you're not at all ashamed of and that's perfectly humane. The Fresno County Farm Bureau in California remarks that keeping visitors and their cameras away is necessary "to protect your operation and the health and safety of your animals." Yes, cameras--very, very dangerous. Showing the public what's happening to animals is clearly a threat to the animals' health and safety. Those "two recent incidents of unwanted visitors taking photos and asking to tour dairies in California’s Central Valley this spring" nearly killed the cows, I'm sure.

Go check out Tracy's related post at Digging through the Dirt if you haven't already (I included it in a recent roundup too): "Want to Avoid Pesky Animal-Cruelty Probes? Let the U.S. Government Show You How." That's right--the U.S. government is working to help animal agribusiness avoid those inconveneint undercover investigations. Lovely.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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