opinion

Reject 'ag-gag' bill

Wisconsin's big dairy industry has an animal cruelty problem it doesn't want you to know about.

In the last two years, two undercover investigations have exposed employees at Wiese Brothers Farm and Andrus Dairy dragging cows by the necks with chains tied to trailers, stabbing and kicking cows, and more. Rather than clean up its act and push the Legislature to enact stronger animal welfare policies, the industry has doubled down and have teamed up with political allies, attempting to pass "ag-gag" laws that make it a crime to document the abuse in the first place.

Several news outlets reported about it after it was announced they were to be soon introducing such a bill.

It's a sad day when Wisconsin lawmakers are protecting animal abusers, not the animals themselves. To our friends in Madison: you can do better. Reject the ag-gag bill.

Katie Vann, Ashwaubenon