ALEC: There Is No Climate Change, Environmental Danger or Animal Cruelty on Factory Farms, and Even If There Is You Don't Need to Know About It

The "corporate bill mill" that is ALEC is busy: It's pushing bills mandating the teaching of climate change denial - the hilariously named "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act" - in three states' classrooms in addition to 11 it's already invaded. And it's pushing so-called Ag-Gag bills - making it an "act of terrorism" to point out animal or environmental horrors at factory farms - in three new states, having already introduced them in 10. Only three passed. Activists successfully fought them in seven. Bill Murray in the classic film “Groundhog Day”: “It’s the same old schtick every year. They pull the little rat out, they talk to him, the rat talks back, then they tell us what’s gonna happen.”

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