FOOD POLICY BEFORE MIDTERMS AND AFTER 2016: What will food policy look like running up to the midterm election, or after the 2016 election, when First Lady Michelle Obama is on the way out as ...

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 ...

A New Mexico bill requiring anyone making video or digital recordings of livestock injuries to submit the recording to law enforcement within 24 hours has been allowed to languish in the state Senate ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animal rights groups have been using drone technology to monitor farmers’ compliance with welfare laws. Under US style “ag gag” laws any footage taken could not be distributed. flickr/eschipul The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — 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 ...