Trespass laws for farms get tougher

[Freddie Stubbs]

Farmers push through law barring animal rights activists in name of homeland security

By MODESTO BEE

SACRAMENTO -- Animal-rights activists are sneaking into barns to snap photos of penned-up pigs, freeing chickens from cages and vandalizing farm equipment.

In response, farm groups and rural law enforcement agencies launched a massive lobbyingeffort this year to push a bill through the Legislature to strengthen trespassing laws on farms and ranches. They did it in the name of homeland security.

Led by state Sen. Chuck Poochigian, a Fresno Republican who represents a giant swathof San Joaquin Valley farm country, supporters argued that animal rights groups could be infiltrated by terrorists trying to contaminate the nation's food supply.

Effective immediately, a trespasser on land or buildings where "cattle, goats, pigs, fowl or any other animal is being raised, bred, fed or held for the purpose of food for human consumption" can be fined $100 for a first offense and, for a second offense, up to $1,000 and sentenced to six months in jail.

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And this law passed in California, which isn't exactly a right-wing state. expect to see similar laws in other states and on the federal level.

[BiggJawn]

1. The ALF-types ought to be happy...

Hey, they get super-martyr status as terra-ists...Around here, they might get just a deer slug in their guts.

What parts of trespassing, theft, and vandalism shouldn't be punished?(you turn my chickens loose, you've stolen them just as if you took them home and cooked them, IMO...)

[Deja Q]

2. Wouldn't any attacked animal die and be thrown out rather than given

to people to consume?

Oh yeah, this is America... where the corporations do as much to hurt us as terrorsts do. (if you knew what was in most toothpastes, soaps, and shampoos, you'd be hesitant to use them...)

[KFC]

3. I am sure that third-world toothpastes, soaps, and shampoos are better

And I guarantee you that British soap is very nasty. You can smell the fat.

[Baclava]

4. Ack

Animal activists are primitive moral Utilitarians - their actions are rationally deficient and fallacious, thus they are acting immorally and have not yet begun to live like human beings.
If they should ever be locked in a barn with hundreds of starving mink, the consequences would be fully justified.