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Bill would ban video of farming operations

04/10/2011

Publication/Event date: 2011-04-08

Publication name: Star Tribune

URL for more info: http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/119516799.html

Summary:

It would become illegal in Minnesota to produce or distribute information about animal mistreatment or agricultural pollution under a bill introduced this week at the Legislature.

Animal rights advocates say the bill — which resembles measures being pushed by legislators in other states, including Iowa — amounts to an unconstitutional infringement on free speech that would have a chilling effect on whistle-blowers trying to bring attention to cases of animal cruelty.

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