The designer of roughly half of the livestock handling systems used in North America spoke out against Iowa’s so-called “ag gag” law today during a speech before the Iowa Farm Bureau. Temple Grandin ...

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In 2011, Minnesota state representative Rod Hamilton (R-Mountain Lake) and former state senator Doug Magnus(R-Slayton) introduced an “ag gag” law that would criminalize videotaping and photographing ...

Since 1990, some state legislatures have passed laws restricting hidden-camera reporting in agricultural facilities. But the “ag-gag” movement has gathered momentum in recent years, as bills have ...

Animals-rights activists continue to question the constitutionality of so-called ag-gag legislation prohibiting undercover investigations of livestock operations. While Iowa’s law has not come under ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A federal judge has struck down an Iowa law that seeks to stop animal welfare groups from secretly filming livestock abuse, the latest in a decade of legislative measures and ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A federal judge has struck down the third attempt by the Iowa Legislature to stop animal welfare groups from secretly filming livestock abuse, finding once again that the law passed ...

An independent journalist says he’s found a way around the so-called “ag-gag” laws – flying drones over large livestock operations to document animal welfare problems and pollution. Will Potter, a ...

Rather than deal with the inhumane, superbug-spawning conditions in factory farms, the Iowa state legislature would prefer to stifle one of activists’ primary weapons of dissent, reports NPR. Just ...