UPDATE: After three and one-half hours of public hearing Thursday, Senate Bill 1337 was sent to the floor of the Idaho House of Representatives by the Agriculture Affairs Committee with
Southern Idaho is a land of prosperous farms and recent record investments totaling $800 million from world-class food manufacturers promising 5,000 more jobs to this sparsely populated area. But
The glory days of muckraking journalism are revisited via an Amicus Curiae brief filed recently on behalf of Utah and national media groups who want to take the sting out
If early bill filings are any indication, animal agriculture is going to go for cruelty laws with short reporting deadlines. Late last year, New Hampshire House Bill 110 was amended
After going 0 for 11 in the states last year and losing again on a state initiative ballot last fall, animal agriculture and GMO labeling campaigners are back with their
Since an animal activist arrested last spring under Utah’s new “agricultural operation interference” statute had the charges quickly dismissed because she was on public property at the time of
Attorneys for Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert and Attorney General John Swallow argue that the federal lawsuit that’s been filed against the state’s new “ag-gag” law is not
It took a time-killing debate in the Indiana General Assembly and a game-changing veto by Gov. Bill Haslam in Tennessee. And only when North Carolina’s Legislature adjourned for the
It’s a rare Sunday that I think I might be able to settle something, right here and right now. An interesting incident occurred recently, mostly in the skies over
After winning a bill-killing veto in Tennessee, the Humane Society of the United States is taking to the airwaves in North Carolina, the latest venue for “ag-gag” wars. North Carolina’
The veto by Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Haslam of a bill requiring anyone taking pictures or shooting video of animal abuse to turn the evidence over to law enforcement within