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The Right to Farm vs. the Public’s Right to Know

Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
From: Guy Hand
Length: 00:04:00

Numerous state legislatures have proposed or passed bills to limit the public’s influence over agriculture. Nationwide, bills restrict access to agricultural records, inhibit lawsuits against farms—and even make photographing farms, in some states, illegal. That has at least one Idaho activist worried. Read the full description.

Ag_leg_4_small Numerous state legislatures have proposed or passed bills to limit the public’s influence over agriculture. Nationwide, bills restrict access to agricultural records, inhibit lawsuits against farms—and even make photographing farms, in some states, illegal. That has at least one Idaho activist worried.

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Aired on Boise State Public Radio 4/15/11

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Agricultural Legislation
Edible Idaho Feature: 0415GH_AgLegislation.wav Feature 4:00 04/15/11 GH/
[HOST INTRO] I’m Guy Hand and this is Edible Idaho, celebrating 2011: The Year of Idaho Food.. (4:00 to soc out; ambient sound to 0:00; fade at will)
[HOST OUTRO] For more on this story or to listen to past Edible Idaho programs, go to radio.boisestate.edu/edibleidaho.
[SCRIPT]
Hand: Numerous state legislatures have proposed or passed bills to limit the public’s influence over agriculture. Nationwide, bills restrict access to agricultural records, inhibit lawsuits against farms—and even make photographing farms, in some states, illegal. That has at least one Idaho activist worried.
Hand: So where are we? Hasse: We are at the Jerome County Courthouse . . .
Hand: Alma Hasse, heads an agricultural watchdog group called Idaho Concerned Area Residents for the Environment or ICARE. Three y...
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