Iowa ag-gag law struck down

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https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-strikes-down-iowa-ag-gag-law/

“The law has the effect of criminalizing undercover investigations of certain agricultural facilities” including livestock confinements, egg production facilities, slaughterhouses and puppy mills, Gritzner wrote, ruling that it violated the First Amendment.

Iowa’s law was challenged in 2017 in federal court by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Center for Food Safety, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and two Iowa-based groups represented by lead attorney Rita Bettis Austen, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa.

 

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Iowa Pork Industry Facts:

• At any one time, there are approximately 20 million pigs being raised in Iowa.
• Iowa producers market approximately 50 million hogs a year.
• Nearly one-third of the nation’s hogs are raised in Iowa.
• Iowa is the number one pork producing state in the U.S. and the top state for pork exports.

https://www.iowapork.org/news-from-the-iowa-pork-producers-association/iowa-pork-facts/