Senate Bill 648 would prevent the exposure of egregious and systematic animal cruelty in large-scale industrial agriculture operation that has led to serious concerns about animal welfare and the safety of the animal products that the public consumes, as documented in undercover investigations at Butterball farms in North Carolina.
The Butterball investigations in 2011 and 2012 uncovered deplorable living conditions, animals with open wounds covered by flies, eye sockets filled with maggots, employees violently kicking animals and hurling them into tiny transport crates.
SB 648 seeks to criminalize anyone who documents illegal and unethical practices at these industrial operations.
Farms operating ethically and legally should have nothing to hide. Only industrial agriculture producers harboring illegal and ethical activity should want to shut out the public. It is in the best interest of North Carolinians to prevent SB 648 from passing.
Peggy Satterwhite
Vance County SPCA
Another example of the Republican’s devotion to protect businesses at the expense of humans and animals. It is the role of government to regulate and protect people and animals from exploitation and abuse. The West Texas fertilizer plant that exploded is another example of corporate greed violating the safety and well-being of the public.
Rick…why do you always make it political by taking every opportunity to bash Republicans?
I am a Conservative and have been hearing about the problems at Butterball and other poultry and egg producers…
not to mention beef, veal, and pork producers.
I despise inhumane treatment to animals whenever or where-ever it takes place, even when these animals are for the market…
the animals should always be treated humanely, right up to the point of slaughter, and should not be traumatized beforehand…
living conditions should be clean…animals kept cool in summer and warm in winter…in uncramped
conditions..
it’s better and more healthy for them, and for us..
“With all due respect”…I find you a very unpleasant person with your self-righteous commentary..
and further…your all consuming bias towards an entire group…while seeing YOUR side thru rose colored glasses as if everything YOUR side does is right and good…
But guess what?
YOUR side has been mostly wrong all along…and as it swings more to the Left…COMPLETELY wrong, as History has shown over and over….
I suggest you research Cloward and Piven…and then check out Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”…
you might see yourself in their suggestions for creating divisiveness and chaos, breaking down traditions, including family, religion, and patriotism, imploding the system thru overwhelming demands, debt and deficits..
in order to “transform” the system and creating a new one.
“Corporate Greed”?
There is nothing or no one more full of greed for money, power and control, then GOVERNMENT…which produces NOTHING.
However..I will contact my representative and demand he vote against SB 648.
On Home in Henderson most of the issues brought forward are political issues. Peggy did not put this here because it was domestic problem. There is a political action about to be taken and she wants political support. That is why the response is political. The action is being proposed by one party so it is appropriate to speak politically against that party.
I am not sure why, when I attempt to defend the positions I take, I am considered unpleasant and self-righteous. And when you defend your position on these issues you are not unpleasant and self-righteous? I understand that you might not like to have your position challenged and thus by challenging it, you think I am unpleasant. You seem to have the courage of your convictions which makes you think you are correct on issues. I share that conviction for my position on the issues.
I do think that we might have a debate on what the Government has produced: NASA has given us a great number of products. The Internet has changed our lives. Government paid for the railroads. Government is still producing weapons and conducting wars and attempting to provide for the national defense. And the list could be extended.
Rick Our taxes paid for most of this
Of course, that is who government is. The argument was that Government takes our taxes and produces nothing. My response was that government has produced a number of important things with those taxes. There is a great debate about whether some of the things that government produces are needed or wanted by all of us. But yes. Government takes are taxes and spends them. But government has “produced” (delivered) brought forth a great number of positive things.
NASA certainly has been a source of thousands of products, but in recent years has been downgraded to almost nothing recognizable as an explorer of space and new ideas that amount to much…
we’ve handed US space exploration and innovation to other countries..like Russia and China…
I find this shameful.
The internet was given a push by both private and government innovators…some coming from NASA…and people like Bill Gates and his friends in his garage.
The railroads did get government help, and pushed the nation forward carrying goods and people across the country, encouraging growth of communites and the economy..
The railroads were a great success until autos and trucks were invented and became mass produced, and…by people like Henry Ford..
The railroads gradually went into decline, partly because the increased use of trucks and poor management..and today…are still being subsidized with gazillions of taxpayer dollars..
We can’t ignore the unknown millions wasted on “green energy” companies…such as the infamous Solyndra, and a long list of similar companies…and the recent total failure and sham Fisker Autos..
which after taking millions of taxpayer money..never produced 1 car in America…
and they still owe more then 200 million, and filing bankruptcy…as most all the geen energy companies have…
Remember…almost all of our “good” investments were mostly partnerships of government and private business, and private investors…
The above green enrgy companies were purely government…no intelligent private or business investor, after researching those companies would take the risk…
But our “leaders” in government did…
Is it total stupidity? or corruption?
As far as being the leader in the world for weapons of war…I’d agree…
this keeps our suppliers, (such as Boeing, etc) in business, and people able to have good jobs..
I think I remember a warning from a former president…Eisenhower…who said that we should beware of the Military Industrial Complex…
Why? because war is their business…
Your hero in the Internet, Bill Gates has declared that 1)we have to find alternatives to gas and oil. Alternative energy is a must. 2) Gates said that this nation will have to invest in thousands of different experiments to find that alternative. 3) that 99 percent of them will be a bust. They will fail. They will not deliver. Like Edison and the light bulb. 4) But that the one that finds the solution will be worth all of the waste of the others.
Certainly were money is changing hands lots of it slips through the fingers to the scam and hustlers. We call that humanity. It will never go away. And as we see in the recent sequester nobody wants their oxen shrunk.
Not sure abouth the oxen–but I surely want enough traffic controllers on the job–no planes down don’t you know?!?