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Cloris Leachman Takes On 'Ag Gag'
Posted by Michelle Sherrow at 5:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)
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Last year, PETA and other animal advocates successfully defeated "ag gag" bills in Florida, New York, Minnesota, and Iowa. Now, another "ag gag" bill that would make it illegal to shoot video on a factory farm has just passed in the House of Representatives in Utah. And once again, we're fighting back against this unconstitutional measure.
Flush from her success in her home state of Iowa, Raising Hope star and longtime animal advocate Cloris Leachman penned a letter to Utah lawmakers on PETA's behalf urging them not to block people from gathering the evidence needed to prosecute animal abusers.
I hope that Utah legislators recognize that with consumer demand for better treatment of animals, they must work to enforce and strengthen laws, not penalize those trying to expose cruel and illegal practices. Citizens' right to document cruelty to animals—wherever it occurs—is crucial in helping local, state, and federal officials enforce anti-cruelty laws.
Every PETA undercover investigation of factory farms has yielded evidence that workers were abusing animals. We recorded workers who sexually assaulted a pig with a cane, stomped on a turkey's head until her skull exploded, and spit tobacco into chickens' eyes and mouth. This indisputable proof of abuse is key to securing historic charges against and convictions of such abusers on cruelty-to-animals charges.
How You Can Help
Utah residents, please ask your senators to vote against this bill and to continue to allow people to expose blatant cruelty to animals.
This post originally appears on PETA.org.
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Melissa says...
March 2nd, 2012, 9:32 pm
Ms. Leachman,
You are a credit to the human race; if only more were like you!
tina gardner says...
March 3rd, 2012, 6:18 am
keep up the good fight…we defeated it here in florida and i'm sure it will be defeated in iowa…it is so blantant how they want to keep their dirty secrets hidden that even legislatures can see it (which in florida is an amazing feat)
joyce angel lennon says...
March 3rd, 2012, 5:04 pm
We all have to do our part to help these animals and I so proud and happy for that wonderful letter you wrote. On behalf of these poor helpless animals, thank you so much!!