Filming or photographing farm animal operations without a farmer's consent would be criminalized under a bill sent to the Kentucky Senate.
The Senate Agriculture Committee attached the language to a House-passed bill on Tuesday.
Kentucky Farm Bureau executive Jeff Harper says the provisions are needed because Kentucky is becoming a target of animal-rights activists who secretly film or photograph farm operations.
Paul Shapiro, a vice president with the Humane Society of the United States, says the state's meat industry is trying to silence whistle-blowers seeking to expose animal cruelty or food safety violations.
He says the bill comes a month after Humane Society whistleblowers exposed animal abuse at a western Kentucky pig farm. If the Senate passes the bill, it would return to the House.
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