‘Ag-gag’ bills face tough row to hoe

Grist continues to be a friend to animals with Tom Laskawy's piece on the "ag gag" bills sweeping many states throughout the nation. If passed, undercover investigations such as those conducted by Mercy For Animals, which often expose crimes against animals, would themselves be criminal acts and the cycle of concealment would be continued.

‘Ag-gag’ bills face tough row to hoe

A few days after this article was published, Tom was kind enough to appear with MFA's executive director Nathan Runkle on San Francisco's NPR station KALW on the show Your Call with Rose Aguilar. That show is available in the archive here.

Grist's Tom Philpott: "animal abuse is rampant"

Grist's Tom Philpott covers the E6 Cattle investigation by Mercy For Animals in Meat Wagon: Undercover video shows sick calves getting brains bashed in with pickax, and more:

"There's no reason to assume this operation is any kind of outlier...To employ a fashionable cliché, animal abuse is a feature, not a bug, of factory farming."

It's very gratifying that Grist, which covers environmental news, is putting more effort into exposing animal abuse in the food system. Animal advocates need to speak frankly to this audience about the impact of their food choices.