The New York Times has editorialized in favor of secret video taping of animal industries and the overturning of a law that made surreptitious video-taping of ag industries a crime. From “Exposing Abuse on the Factory Farm”:
In a country that lavishes love and legal protections on house pets, factory farmed animals are left out in the cold, exempt from almost all animal cruelty laws.
As a result they suffer torture and other mistreatment to a degree that is hard to imagine. The only way to make it stop is to ensure that Americans can see for themselves what goes on behind the factory doors.
Wow, then they must also approve of the video taping of Planned Parenthood.
Of course they don’t! From “The Campaign of Deception Against Planned Parenthood”:
The Center for Medical Progress video campaign is a dishonest attempt to make legal, voluntary and potentially lifesaving tissue donations appear nefarious and illegal. Lawmakers responding by promoting their own anti-choice agenda are rewarding deception and putting women’s health and their constitutionally protected rights at risk.
Why the difference? I guess the definitions of “cruelty” and “deception” depend on whose ox — or fetus — is being gored.