{"id":760771,"date":"2020-06-19T06:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760771"},"modified":"2020-06-19T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:44:10","slug":"ontario-passes-ag-gag-legislation-to-protect-farmers-from-animal-rights-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760771","title":{"rendered":"Ontario passes Ag-Gag legislation to protect farmers from animal rights activists"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Animal rights activists say the new law will conceal animal cruelty at farms and slaughterhouses and interfere with lawful protests.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CANADIAN PRESS:<\/strong> Ontario has passed legislation it says will protect farmers from animal rights activists who trespass on their property. The controversial legislation \u2014 which the government introduced late last year \u2014 hikes fines for trespassing on farms and food-processing facilities and makes it illegal to obstruct trucks carrying farm animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the law, fines for trespassing will be set at a maximum of $15,000 for a first offence, compared to the previous maximum trespassing fines of $10,000&#8230; The bill has been applauded by farmers but roundly criticized by animal rights activists who say it targets them. Activists say the new law will conceal animal cruelty at farms and slaughterhouses and interfere with lawful protests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2020\/06\/17\/ontario-passes-bill-to-protect-farmers-from-animal-rights-activists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tg5J9fcK8MA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANADIAN PRESS: Ontario has passed legislation it says will protect farmers from animal rights activists who trespass on their property. The controversial legislation \u2014 which the government introduced late last year \u2014 hikes fines for trespassing on farms and food-processing facilities and makes it illegal to obstruct trucks carrying farm animals. Under the law, fines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35,37],"class_list":["post-760771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760774,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760771\/revisions\/760774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/760772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}