MatthewALDF

This is a great question. A lot of these workers are underpaid and exploited in their own way, so we shouldn't be shocked when they lash out in frustration, though of course it's horrible that the animals bear the brunt of it. In my opinion, the real significance of these videos is not the discrete acts of animal cruelty they reveal (e.g. a worker punching a cow), but rather the kinds of routine, normal, commonplace animal suffering that pervades factory farming (e.g., confining animals in small cages, mutilating them without pain relief), or even things that are inherent in producing animal products (e.g., separating newborn calves from their bellowing mothers).

Yes, happy, healthy vegan for 15 years. First rule of legal ethics: don't eat your clients.

Legally speaking, the decision is limited to the Idaho statute, but this statute was part of a concerted nationwide effort to silence critics of animal agriculture, so its reverberations should be felt throughout the country. We already have a case pending challenging Utah's Ag-Gag statute.

There is a Ms. Bear Free'er, who is a public interest attorney herself, working to make sure low-income people get the legal assistance they need.

By taking action. When you move beyond simply bearing witness to suffering, and start to do something to change the conditions of the suffering, it becomes (slightly) more bearable. Also, I run, listen to music, and have a strong support network of friends and family who share my values.