What happens if we stop documenting animal cruelty?

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0:00What if the government made it much

0:01harder to expose animal cruelty? We

0:04might not see videos like this one.

0:06Earlier this year, an animal rights

0:08activist flew a drone over a calf ranch

0:10in California and documented employees

0:13abusing animals. The drone captured

0:15workers kicking calves in the face,

0:17grinding a hot iron into their skulls,

0:20apparently without pain relief, and

0:22confining them in tiny crates. Over the

0:24last decade, animal advocates say that

0:26drones have become an essential tool.

0:28They use them to capture the enormous

0:30scale of factory farms and the welfare

0:33issues at these operations that house

0:35billions of animals for meat, milk, and

0:37egg production. But a proposed rule by

0:39the Federal Aviation Administration

0:41could soon make it much harder to

0:43document this type of cruelty. The rule

0:45would allow businesses across the

0:47economy to apply for drone restrictions

0:49on their property, including farms,

0:51ranches, and slaughterhouses. Activists

0:53and photojournalists I spoke with say

0:55that this is part of a long-running

0:57campaign to criminalize documenting

0:59animal cruelty rather than criminalizing

1:02animal cruelty itself. For example,

1:04several states have made it illegal to

1:07film inside farms and some have banned

1:09flying drones over farms. In comments to

1:12the FAA, meat industry groups have made

1:14it clear that they want this to become

1:17national policy, arguing that it'll help

1:19to protect the food supply and prevent

1:21activists from filming their operations.

1:23Most Americans will never set foot

1:25inside a factory farm or slaughterhouse.

1:28What little we do know about these

1:30operations has largely come from

1:32investigators willing to go inside and

1:34document them or fly a drone. And if

1:37that work becomes harder to do, it will

1:39only become more difficult to know just

1:41where our food comes from. Read the full

1:43story at vox.com.

What happens if we stop documenting animal cruelty?

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0:00What if the government made it much

0:01harder to expose animal cruelty? We

0:04might not see videos like this one.

0:06Earlier this year, an animal rights

0:08activist flew a drone over a calf ranch

0:10in California and documented employees

0:13abusing animals. The drone captured

0:15workers kicking calves in the face,

0:17grinding a hot iron into their skulls,

0:20apparently without pain relief, and

0:22confining them in tiny crates. Over the

0:24last decade, animal advocates say that

0:26drones have become an essential tool.

0:28They use them to capture the enormous

0:30scale of factory farms and the welfare

0:33issues at these operations that house

0:35billions of animals for meat, milk, and

0:37egg production. But a proposed rule by

0:39the Federal Aviation Administration

0:41could soon make it much harder to

0:43document this type of cruelty. The rule

0:45would allow businesses across the

0:47economy to apply for drone restrictions

0:49on their property, including farms,

0:51ranches, and slaughterhouses. Activists

0:53and photojournalists I spoke with say

0:55that this is part of a long-running

0:57campaign to criminalize documenting

0:59animal cruelty rather than criminalizing

1:02animal cruelty itself. For example,

1:04several states have made it illegal to

1:07film inside farms and some have banned

1:09flying drones over farms. In comments to

1:12the FAA, meat industry groups have made

1:14it clear that they want this to become

1:17national policy, arguing that it'll help

1:19to protect the food supply and prevent

1:21activists from filming their operations.

1:23Most Americans will never set foot

1:25inside a factory farm or slaughterhouse.

1:28What little we do know about these

1:30operations has largely come from

1:32investigators willing to go inside and

1:34document them or fly a drone. And if

1:37that work becomes harder to do, it will

1:39only become more difficult to know just

1:41where our food comes from. Read the full

1:43story at vox.com.

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