[Vision2020] Ag Gag Law

[Saundra Lund]

I'll be sure to pass that along to anyone I know who happens to have a spare
$26,000 laying around  ;-)

I'm curious, though, Kai, how an ag employee being subject to sexual
harassment or physical mistreatment OTJ could document that from a public
space when it's happening on private property???  Or, how the ag worker
aware that the boss is instructing workers to dump toxic chemicals into
waterways on private property that empty into rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
can document those abuses from a public space?  And so forth.

Idiot Idaho legislators & governors just went along with ALEC's wording
without thinking it through.  Typical.

I'll be interested in seeing the outcome of the case filed in Utah on the
grounds (if I correctly understand) that Utah's ag gag law violates the US
Constitution plays out.



Saundra
Moscow, ID

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there
is not enough.  We have a higher mission -- to be of service to them
whereever they require it.
~ Francis of Assisi

-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Kai Eiselein
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 8:28 PM
To: Ron Force; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Ag Gag Law

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






________________________________
> 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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