When Amy Meyer saw a sick cow being pushed by a bulldozer outside a slaughterhouse, she did what any of us would in this age of iPhones and Instagram – she filmed it.Meyer, 25, knew it was not only cruel, it was a public safety risk.Similar video footage had resulted in the largest meat recall in US history, when it was revealed that cows too sick to walk were being fed to school children as part of the national school lunch program.Instead of being praised for exposing this, Meyer was prosecuted.Even though she stood on public property, she was charged with violating a new law in Utah that makes it illegal to photograph or videotape factory farms and slaughterhouses.This was the first prosecution of its kind in the United States, but if the agriculture industry has its way, it won’t be the last.“Ag-gag” laws have spread rapidly, and today half a dozen states have made it illegal to film factory farms.Now, the agriculture industry wants to bring ag-gag to Australia.
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