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65 Admin. L. Rev. 127 (2013)
Hard to Watch: How Ag-Gag Laws Demonstrate the Need for Federal Meat and Poultry Industry Whistleblower Protections

handle is hein.journals/admin65 and id is 137 raw text is: COMMENT HARD TO WATCH: HOW AG-GAG LAWS DEMONSTRATE THE NEED FOR FEDERAL MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTIONS SARA LACY* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ......................... ..................... 128 I. Overview of Existing Food Safety Regulatory Structure................131 II. Whistleblower Protections, the Corporate Meat Production Industry, and Its Workforce .................................134 A. Where Meat is Not Food: The FSMA and Existing Federal Whistleblower Protections ................... ........ 135 B. Meat and Poultry Production: An Overview of Common Major Concerns..............................136 C. By the Lagoons and on the Line: The Meat and Poultry Production Workforce .......................139 III. Something to Hide: The Recent Surge in Ag-Gag Laws Across the United States ..........................................140 IV. The USDA Should Promulgate Rules that Require Meat and Poultry Industry Facilities to Provide Employee Protection * J.D./M.A. Candidate, 2014, American University Washington College of Law and School of International Service; B.A. Government, 2008, Skidmore College. The author would like to thank Professor Robert Vaughn and Professor Lewis Grossman for their guidance and John Albanes, Bryan Thurmond, and the Administrative Law Review staff for their editorial support. The author also thanks her friends, family, and especially Matthieu Sauvage-Mar for the patience, perspective, and support they provided during the writing process. 127

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