You’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing it
vox.com
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Not really sure what to put here...I usually put relevant excerpts, but that got this post deleted for doing that
There's a bit of difference between "exposing animal cruelty" and stealing livestock.
Bit of a fucked up situation when conscious beings are considered property though.
My cat is a conscious being.
I still own her.
I also have a cat.
I am her legal custodian, she isn't property.
I was just borrowing it osfficer
They were stealing sick livestock that had no commercial value.
Still, that's a few steps further than just "exposing animal cruelty".
Not saying what they did was wrong at all, but the headline is definitely clickbait.
(Note: I haven't read past the headline or some of the comments, so I might be way off)
Juries didn’t view it as wrong in past court cases. This was the first one to land a conviction, and they did it by putting a gag order on all the footage the activists took, which in previous cases was instrumental in swaying juries.