TN Ag-Gag Bill Sponsor Compares Exposing Animal Abuse to Rape
Written by: Erica Meier
We saw in the last election the fate of political candidates who for some reason felt compelled to talk repeatedly—and often ignorantly—about rape. Well, now Republican Tennessee state representative Andy Holt, the sponsor of the state’s ag-gag bill to criminalize whistleblowers at factory farms, is joining that club.
As reported by The Tennessean, in an email exchange with a female staffer at the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Rep. Holt likened the work of exposing animal abuse to the way “human traffickers use 17 year old women.” He continued by describing HSUS’s use of videography to expose cruelty as “tape and rape.”
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