In Utah, law makers are trying to criminalize the filming of animal abuse on factory farms.
So Katherine Heigl has written a letter on PETA’s behalf in an attempt to persuade a vote against the House Bill.
She said:
“My husband and I married in Utah, and I’ve been proud to call the state home for the last couple of years.
This bill makes our state’s agricultural community seem desperate to hide illegal and inhumane treatment of animals from the public.
As animals cannot defend themselves, the public must maintain its right to document illegal cruel practices in order to alert law enforcement to its existence.”
It’s ridiculous they are blatantly trying to cover up their animal abuse.
“In 2008, my friends at PETA went undercover at a major pig farm in Iowa that supplies Hormel and found that workers were beating pigs with metal rods and jabbing clothespins into their eyes; one employee was even caught sexually abusing a pig with a cane.
Because of this investigation, six workers were charged with a total of 22 counts of livestock neglect and abuse, and all of them admitted guilt.”
So without the ability to undercover film this abuse it will just be able to go on, and these horrible people will be able to terrorize more animals.
“PETA worked hand in hand with local law enforcement to achieve these convictions, for which the undercover footage made the sheriff’s job much easier. Please don’t impede law enforcement by passing this terrible bill.
I hope that legislators in Utah recognize that they need to work to prevent cruelty to animals by strengthening laws, not penalizing those who are trying to expose this cruelty.”
Let’s hope the Heiglinator can stop this bill from going through or else there is one dark future in store for the animals.
[Image via Mavrix Online.]
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