Mary, thanks for posting this.
This bill makes it illegal for radical animal rights activists to illegally enter animal enterprises
I don't mean to belittle the importance of the topic, but I have to say that the person who wrote the Yahoo post sounds like a kook. As someone on the AVMA board pointed out (and, as the above, somewhat loopy quote implies), there are already laws against breaking and entering, trespassing, misrepresenting information, et al. The only thing new that this law would do would be to prevent people from audio- or video-recording livestock animals. Presumably the only reason for that is to prevent the documentation of cruelty to these animals. The way that this legislation lumps the recording in with all of the other things which are already illegal seems ham-handed at best, and I wonder whether it would stand up to a judge's scrutiny. Still, I think that this is an important topic that deserves some visibility. ASPCA has written about this too. They say that it would affect puppy (and, presumably, bird) mills as well as traditional agribusiness. http://www.capwiz.com/aspca/issues/alert/?alertid=37364501 http://www.capwiz.com/aspca/issues/alert/?alertid=37364501&type=ST &type=ST --VH