Iowa lawmakers have passed a bill to criminalize certain types of trespass on agricultural facilities in the latest attempt to stop animal activists and others from secretly documenting activities at large animal feeding facilities.
The Iowa House passed the measure, House File 775, on a 72-20 vote Monday night. The Iowa Senate passed the bill last week on a 35-11 vote, which means it now heads to Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds desk for her signature.
In the House, 15 Democrats joined 57 Republicans in voting in favor of the bill, while 19 Democrats and one Republican, Rep. Jeff Shipley of Fairfield, were opposed. Eight representatives were absent. In the Senate, six Democrats joined every Republican in voting for the bill.
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2021/04/09 02:40 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) An animal rights activist whose investigations and pranks have made him a leading foe of the livestock industry has been charged with trespassing at a pig facility, in the first case brought under Iowa’s latest law aimed at protecting farming operations from intruders. Matthew Johnson, 35, is charged with trespassing at a food operation for his presence Feb. 5 outside an Iowa Select Farms sow operation in Dows, 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of Des Moines. Investigators say surveillance video captured Johnson approach one of the buildings and try to pull a door to determine if it was locked before running away. Iowa Select Farms, one of the nation’s largest pork producers, turned over the footage to the Wright County sheriff’s office, and Johnson was charged last month.
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In this February 2021 photo provided by Matt Johnson is animal rights activist Johnson, a researcher with the group Direct Action Everywhere. Johnson, a leading foe of the livestock industry, has been charged with trespassing at a pig facility in Iowa, the first case brought under the state s latest so-called ag-gag law. (Matt Johnson via AP)
IOWA CITY An animal rights activist whose investigations and pranks have made him a leading foe of the livestock industry has been charged with trespassing at a pig facility, in the first case brought under Iowa’s latest law aimed at protecting farming operations from intruders.
Political Climate in California
Updated: April 9, 2021 at 10:38 am
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Dan Ross
At the start of last month, a small cadre of animal rights protestors snuck onto the Golden Gate Fields racetrack, lay down with arms interlocked in pipes, and halted live racing–as well as a vaccination drive on facility grounds–until police intervention saw their removal.
While the incident had a flash-in-the-pan quality, it had the corollary effect of reminding those within the sport here in the Golden State of the somewhat precarious position in which it still finds itself–an important part of the economic puzzle, employing tens of thousands, but one that doesn t always fit squarely with the state s broader progressive bona fides on animal welfare.
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