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Iowa Outlaws Whistleblowing In Factory Farms

3/5/2012

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How do you suppose the smartest guys in the room care about animal rights? I'll give you a hint: about as much as the guys at Enron cared about the energy consumer in California during the scandal.

In Iowa today, Governor Terry Branstad  signed a bill that outlaws whistleblowing in factory farms. See the raw and uncut version of the bill at the iowa.gov website  here: x.co/HF589Iowa.

The House File 589 Bill is easy to pass if one looks at an animal like an economic token for state revenue. Agribusiness is not about emotion or ethics; unfortunately it's about the dollar in Iowa. This is business and government at its worst. Iowa is basically legalizing animal cruelty and then hiding it from the public, cowering at the thought of what people may think if these morbid practices were transparent.

More to the point, if Iowa is going to legalize animal cruelty in industrial factory farming, why hide the nature of business operations from the public?  The Branstad Administration could argue that it's to protect industry secrets and that there are already regulatory entities ensuring "legal" practices within the walls of these industrial factory farms. Rather, it is cowardly to hide the mistreatment of animals in the rearing and slaughter process in the name of "good business" for the state of Iowa.

Bigger picture, a lack of transparency in Agribusiness will also lead to a loss of credibility in other areas of state government: state fuel tax, education planning, urban development, job creation, allocation of federal grant money and administration of the legal system to name a few. Trust in the Branstad Administration surely will be dwindling after this bill is discussed in social media. -ABA
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    Aaron Abodeely currently works for a leading domain name registrar and web hosting company. As a graduate from the University of Iowa, he has a B.B.A. in Management and Organizations, an International Business Certificate and a minor in Spanish. He studied abroad in Madrid, Spain in 2008. Also, at the U. of Iowa he worked with the Public Policy Center on the National Evaluation of a Mileage-Based Road User Charge project.

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