[Vision2020] Ag Gag Law
Kai Eiselein
fotopro63 at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 1 20:28:21 PST 2014
The law doesn't infringe on the right to observe/record/photograph from public spaces, such as right of way areas.
Therefore, I'd suggest:
http://www.sigmaphoto.com/product/200-500mm-f28-apo-ex-dg
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> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 19:50:24 -0800
> From: rforce2003 at yahoo.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Ag Gag Law
>
> The provisions of the law are pretty broad. The way I read this, it
> would apply to logging on public lands (fiber).
>
>
> Excerpts:
> (d) Enters an agricultural production facility and, without the facil-
> 25 ity owner's express consent or pursuant to judicial process or statu-
> 26 tory authorization, makes audio or video recordings of the conduct of an
> 27 agricultural production facility's operations;
>
> (a) "Agricultural production" means activities associated with the
> 33 production of agricultural products for food, fiber, fuel and other
> 34 lawful uses and includes without limitation:
> 35 (i) Construction, expansion, use, maintenance and repair of an
> 36 agricultural production facility;
> 37 (ii) Preparing land for agricultural production;
> 38 (iii) Handling or applying pesticides, herbicides or other chem-
> 39 icals, compounds or substances labeled for insects, pests, crops,
> 40 weeds, water or soil;
> 41 (iv) Planting, irrigating, growing, fertilizing, harvesting or
> 42 producing agricultural, horticultural, floricultural and viti-
> cultural crops, fruits and vegetable products, field grains,
> 2 seeds, hay, sod and nursery stock, and other plants, plant prod-
> 3 ucts, plant byproducts, plant waste and plant compost;
> 4 (v) Breeding, hatching, raising, producing, feeding and keep-
> 5 ing livestock, dairy animals, swine, furbearing animals, poultry,
> 6 eggs, fish and other aquatic species, and other animals, animal
> 7 products and animal byproducts, animal waste, animal compost, and
> 8 bees, bee products and bee byproducts;
> 9 (vi) Processing and packaging agricultural products, including
> 10 the processing and packaging of agricultural products into food
> 11 and other agricultural commodities;
> 12 (vii) Manufacturing animal feed;
> 13 (viii) Transporting agricultural products to or from an agricul-
> 14 tural facility;
> 15 (ix) Selling agricultural products at a farmers or roadside mar-
> 16 ket.
> 17 (b) "Agricultural production facility" means any structure or land,
> 18 whether privately or publicly owned, leased or operated, that is being
> 19 used for agricultural production.
>
>
> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
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