> "A Bill proposed by Florida state senator Jim Norman would make it a
> first-degree felony to photograph a farm without written permission from the
> owner. The bill is currently in the criminal justice committee of the state
> senate. The maximum prison time for a first-degree felony in Florida is 30
> years."
>
> http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/animals-cruelty-and-videotape/?pagemode=print
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Why stop at farms? What makes them so special? Just outlaw cameras throughout the state; that would be efficient and egalitarian. Anyone who owns anything will be happy. Self-ownership partisans take note.
"In further deregulation news, after facing stiff resistance from Republicans and the agribusiness lobby, Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson assured a gathering of agricultural leaders in Iowa that her agency has no plans to regulate farm runoff, despite its hazards. “Runoff of nitrogen and phosphorus from farms damages water quality in Iowa and elsewhere in the Mississippi basin and contributes to a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico,” the Des Moines Register reported.
Gotta love the misdescriptive boilerplate; it's amazing how many more people get regulated when deregulation occurs.
Still highly recommended after all these years:
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4226484