ag-gag
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]ag-gag (not comparable)
- (of a law) That prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
- 2015, Gregg Barak, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful[1]:
- "Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement."
Noun
[edit]- A law that prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
- 2015, H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha, The Ecopolitics of Consumption: The Food Trade[2]:
- "However, the proliferation of ag-gag also has other insidious ramifications at the local, national, and global scales."