In today’s big brother society, Homeland Security uses the
slogan, “If you see something, say something” harking back to the days of
Soviet Russia and East Germany. It is
not American to nark on your neighbors.
But in some cases, saying something is a good thing. For example, if you see someone assaulting a
woman or child. Or if you see an animal
abused. The animal rights movement,
however, doesn’t want you to say anything, ever. Sounds polar opposite, doesn’t it? All across America, thse activists are
lobbying against what they call “ag gag” laws that interfere with their profit
making advocacy. They make millions off
of images
of abused animals. The more images they have, the more money they make. They don’t want to see animal abuse stopped
because then they can’t exploit it for cold hard cash.
For example, in North Carolina, the pro-animal rights Governor
recently vetoed an agriculture
Property Protection Act, which the activists referred to as an ”ag gag”
bill. The North Carolina legislature
then rightfully overrode Governor Pat McCrory’s veto. Activists claim that these laws prevent them
from reporting animal abuse. They claim
farmers are hiding something from the public.
They lie. Animal rights
activists do not want to report animal abuse.
Instead, they film it for their snuff films to raise money from the
public. Farmers are the ones that want
to report and stop animal abuse in its tracks. Many bills like the one in North Carolina
have been filed in recent years in states across this Nation to force animal
rights activists and others to report animal abuse when it happens. Some
versions of these laws include provisions that any witnessed animal abuse must
be reported to the authorities within 24 to 48 hours. Activists are opposed to reporting an abused
and injured animal. Instead they want
to film the suffering animals, sometimes for up to 9 months, just so they can
get their animal snuff film images.
A chronic offender in this category is a group called Mercy
for Animals (MFA). Recently the Dairy
Farmers of America issued
a statement calling out MFA for not reporting animal abuse in a timely
manner. MFA sent an activist named
Jessica Buck into the Geordert dairy farm in Colorado who then didn’t do the
job she was hired to do, which was to take care of their animals. Instead the female activist spent two months
filming animal abuse by a few of the farmer’s 30 employees and not
reporting it to anyone.
"We couldn't believe that someone who we hired as
a milker and trusted to do the right thing and care for our cows would act so
contrary to our values," said Marie Goedert of the undercover
activist, Jessica Buck. "Why not bring these concerns to our
attention immediately?"
The employees in question had already been fired by the
Geordert’s by the time MFA released their video to the public. In addition, they are working with the local
Sheriff to ensure that everyone who abused animals on their farm is
prosecuted. So tell me, who’s speaking
up for the best interest of animals?
The farmer or the activist?
In the past, activists from the animal rights front have
been accused of actually staging the animal abuse themselves both in Idaho
and Colorado, and other states, in order to discredit American farmers and discourage
consumers from eating meat.
In the
Colorado case, activist Taylor Radig, was arrested and charged
with animal cruelty for failing to stop the abuse she witnessed for over
two months. Instead of reporting what
she saw, in violation of state law, she simply filmed the actions so her
employer, Compassion over Killing, could release the video to the public months
later and exploit the situation. She
didn’t care about the actual animals who were suffering in front of her.
Instead
all she and others like her care about is selling snuff films to a gullible
public and pleading for donations. Donations
that do not ever go to the animals you saw in those videos. These so-called ag gag laws are needed to force
people to say something if they see animal abuse occurring.
VIDEO: Activists lock themselves to construction equipment. Two animal rights activists are atop construction equipment to protest the building of an animal research lab. click here
Katharine Dokken
is a Public Affairs Specialist at The Cavalry Group and the author of a
new book, The
Art of Terror: Inside the Animal Rights
Movement, available on Amazon.
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The Cavalry Group on Twitter:
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