Category Archives: Non-Portfolio Tasks

Supportive 3 (Beef article) Claim- With 98% of farms and ranches in the U.S. family owned and operated, I know that today’s food is grown by people who care about the animals, the environment and the final retail product. The author … Continue reading →

2) Antagonist to Gag law: Insert the best quote that demonstrates the authors’ failure to supply sufficient evidence. Ronnie and Katherine provide good points throughout the article on why Ag law should be put to the stop. However the authors … Continue reading →

Antagonistic #1 “ALEC’s sole purpose is to write model legislation that protects corporate profits. Industry then pushes state legislators to adapt the bills for their states and push them through. The idea behind the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act is … Continue reading →

Antagonistic 1)  Stacking the Deck Rebuttal “In other words, these laws turn journalists and the investigators of crimes into criminals.” These laws are not meant to criminalize reporters for the sake of their career, but because the incidents with animals … Continue reading →

Antagonistic 1: “But as we’ve seen with the Ag-Gag bills, state laws often are written by big corporations. Nowhere is that more obvious than in states where cruel methods of treating animals are exempted from state laws on the basis … Continue reading →

Antagonistic 2: “2) If recordings are allowed, individuals are forced to submit footage to authorities in an unrealistically short turnaround time, making it impossible to document patterns of abuse. ” -The law that would force individuals to submit the footage … Continue reading →

Katherine and Ronnie make a good reasoning unto why Ag Gag laws should be put to a stop, but they really do not  fight for why they would like the laws to be released. If the Ag Gag laws exist … Continue reading →