Query to Megan Oliphant and the others who commented on my mini set-to with the honeywagon haulers: Do you know that the "Ag-gag" law the Iowa legislature passed, was found to be illegal, a violation of the First Amendment? A succinct report by Rachael Oatman published in Meat + Poultry at https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/27330-iowa-ag-gag-law-found-unconstitutional outlines the issue. Chief Justice Stephanie M. Rose of the U.S. Southern Iowa District wrote that the law violates the First Amendment. “It is true that the act does not prohibit the editing, publication, or distribution of recordings or photographs on trespassed property...,”
Rose wrote, and she goes on to point out that trespassing is against the law, but that it is a "...necessary predicate to produce this protected speech..." In short, you must trespass to get the shot, though that wasn't necessary for this one:
All I am trying to do is illustrate my contention that neither industry nor agriculture pays the real cost of producing products. Consider 1,889 Superfund sites on the EPA website proof. As far as I could see only 37 have been cleaned up, but the company owners and stockholders have (in many cases, they are already out of business) been paid handsomely, and now the rest of us have to clean up their messes. Hardly fair, huh? The same applies to the dead zone in the Gulf.
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