TY - JOUR
T1 - “Ag-Gag” Laws
T2 - Evolution, Resurgence, and Public Health Implications
AU - Ceryes, Caitlin A.
AU - Heaney, Christopher D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: CAC was supported by a grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (T42 OH0008428) to the Johns Hopkins University Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health. She also received financial support through the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future-Lerner Fellowship. CDH was supported by grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01ES026973), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI130066), the joint National Science Foundation-National Institutes of Health-U.S. Department of Agriculture Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program (1316318), and E.W. “Al” Thrasher Award 10287 from the Thrasher Research Fund.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/2/1
Y1 - 2019/2/1
N2 - The term “ag-gag” refers to state laws that intentionally limit public access to information about agricultural production practices, particularly livestock production. Originally created in the 1990s, these laws have recently experienced a resurgence in state legislatures. We discuss the recent history of ag-gag laws in the United States and question whether such ag-gag laws create a “chilling effect” on reporting and investigation of occupational health, community health, and food safety concerns related to industrial food animal production. We conclude with a discussion of the role of environmental and occupational health professionals to encourage critical evaluation of how ag-gag laws might influence the health, safety, and interests of day-to-day agricultural laborers and the public living proximal to industrial food animal production.
AB - The term “ag-gag” refers to state laws that intentionally limit public access to information about agricultural production practices, particularly livestock production. Originally created in the 1990s, these laws have recently experienced a resurgence in state legislatures. We discuss the recent history of ag-gag laws in the United States and question whether such ag-gag laws create a “chilling effect” on reporting and investigation of occupational health, community health, and food safety concerns related to industrial food animal production. We conclude with a discussion of the role of environmental and occupational health professionals to encourage critical evaluation of how ag-gag laws might influence the health, safety, and interests of day-to-day agricultural laborers and the public living proximal to industrial food animal production.
KW - agricultural worker health
KW - animal feeding operations
KW - community-based participatory research
KW - environmental justice
KW - industrial food animal production
KW - worker health and safety
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U2 - 10.1177/1048291118808788
DO - 10.1177/1048291118808788
M3 - Article
C2 - 30451569
AN - SCOPUS:85058708055
SN - 1048-2911
VL - 28
SP - 664
EP - 682
JO - New Solutions
JF - New Solutions
IS - 4
ER -