{"id":27354,"date":"2011-03-31T17:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27354\/hln-tackles-bills-aimed-banning-undercover-cruelty-investigations\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:23:46","slug":"hln-tackles-bills-aimed-banning-undercover-cruelty-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/27354\/hln-tackles-bills-aimed-banning-undercover-cruelty-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"HLN Tackles Bills Aimed at Banning Undercover Cruelty Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Animal Rights<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thank you Mercy For Animals
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HLN Tackles Bills Aimed at Banning Undercover Cruelty Investigations<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Controversy continues to broil over state legislation attempting to ban the filming of factory farms. Following the Des Moines Register’s<\/a><\/em> editorial<\/a>
\ndecrying an Iowa bill on constitutional grounds, dedicated animal
\nadvocate and television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell has spoken
\nout against these shameful efforts to criminalize undercover
\ninvestigations. <\/strong><\/p>\n

On her Headline News Network (HLN) show, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell<\/em><\/a>,
\nJane recently focused on the harsh realities of factory farming and the
\ncrucial role of undercover investigations in bringing animal suffering
\nto light. Using Mercy For Animals’ investigative footage<\/a> of pregnant pigs crammed into gestation crates<\/a> and dairy farm workers stabbing cows with pitchforks<\/a>, Jane condemned the kind of cruelty that agribusiness desperately hopes to conceal in the courtroom.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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Jane
\nwas joined by Paul Shapiro of The Humane Society of the United States.
\nDiscussing the motivation behind pro-factory farm legislation in Iowa
\nand Florida, Mr. Shapiro explained: “These are outrageous bills that are
\nintended to keep the American public in the dark when it comes to the
\nroutine cruelty that animals face on factory farms<\/a>.”
\nHe added: “We need to let our legislators know that we want to see
\nreform of these animal factories, not pushing them further and further
\ninto secrecy.”<\/strong><\/div>\n
If you haven’t already, please take action by filling out this form<\/a>
\nand voicing your concerns to Iowa’s lawmakers. Politely urge them to
\nvote against this misguided legislation that would silence
\nwhistleblowers, while helping the meat, egg, and dairy industries to
\nabuse farmed animals away from the public’s view. <\/strong><\/div>\n

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Animal Rights Thank you Mercy For Animals HLN Tackles Bills Aimed at Banning Undercover Cruelty Investigations Controversy continues to broil over state legislation attempting to ban the filming of factory farms. Following the Des Moines Register’s editorial decrying an Iowa bill on constitutional grounds, dedicated animal advocate and television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell has spoken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}