A federal judge cited Upton Sinclair’s 1906 muckraking novel “The Jungle” in throwing out Idaho’s law forbidding undercover videos at factory farms. Judge B. Lyn Winmill said the novel led to meatpacking industry reforms and that the farming industry could counter any videos with information,”The remedy for misleading speech, or speech we do not like, is more speech, not enforced silence.” (Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2015, by Matt Pearce)
It was a first legal setback for “ag-gag” laws which have been passed in eight other states. (Daily Kos, August 4, 2015, by Walter Einenkel)