This November 28, 2010 photo provided by The Humane Society of the United States, shows alleged abuse of female breeding pigs at a Virginia factory farm owned by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods in Waverly, Va. (AP Photo/The Humane Society of the United States)

Letter of the Day: Sinister law

Sinister law

EDITOR: So we are banning the taking of pictures of illegal activity at animal product food factories ("Taping farm cruelty becoming a crime," Sunday)? Why would people care about where their food comes from? It is only a matter health.

Why stop there? Why not ban all citizen engagement in whistle-blowing? Ban all picture evidence of contaminated food. Ban all negative restaurant reviews. It is only a matter of health.

But why stop there? Ban citizen picture taking of all illegal activity. Why not make it illegal for citizen picture-taking of police overreaching, or of someone robbing or beating someone else? Hey, just make it a law that if the activity is illegal then pictures of that activity are the real crime.

These laws are truly sinister.

LYLE BENNETT

Healdsburg

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