{"id":25344,"date":"2011-10-04T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=25344"},"modified":"2011-10-04T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T13:45:29","slug":"finland-going-after-animal-activists-for-undercover-factory-farm-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/finland-going-after-animal-activists-for-undercover-factory-farm-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland Going After Animal Activists for Undercover Factory Farm Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Animal rights and environmental activists are increasingly being targeted by governments as terrorists (or “eco-terrorists”) as award-winning independent journalist and author Will Potter repeatedly shows. One of his recent posts on his site Green is the New Red<\/a> was on animal activists in Finland being prosecuted for undercovering filming of factory farms. The story:<\/p>\n

“In December 2009, Finnish media outlets\u00a0stunned<\/a>\u00a0the nation by publishing disturbing video and photographs from inside 30 pig factory farms, the result of a two-month undercover investigation by the leading Finnish animal rights group,\u00a0Justice for Animals<\/a>. You can see the images and videos\u00a0here<\/a>,” Mikko Alanne<\/a>\u00a0writes on of the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n

“Sights of injured, dead, and dying pigs outraged a country whose factory farmers had always touted their \u201chumane\u201d practices. Members of Parliament and even agribusiness representatives condemned what they saw. Police investigations were promised. There were even calls for the Minister of Agriculture to resign (she didn\u2019t).”<\/p>\n

But, rather than prosecute any<\/em> of the agribusiness culprits, the authorities have decided to prosecute two of the animal activists! What for? For \u201caggravated defamation\u201d of pig farmers and \u201cdisturbing the peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nice, way to stomp at the problem at its root, right?<\/p>\n

Potter has covered this sort of story in other places and his intro to this latest news is as follows:<\/p>\n

As animal rights activists continue to expose the systemic cruelty of factory farming, the industries targeted are doing everything they can to keep the public in the dark. I\u2019ve written previously about attempts to pass\u00a0new legislation criminalizing undercover investigations<\/a>, how\u00a0EUROPOL lists undercover videos as a terrorism threat<\/a>, and how\u00a0Spanish activists are being prosecuted<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cterrorists\u201d for their work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good work by Potter and Justice for Animals. Too bad \u00a0the authorities are in bed with agribusiness.<\/p>\n

Image Credit: screenshot of\u00a0sikatehtaat.fi video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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