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Ginnifer Goodwin took a moment to send her fans a Tweet, urging them to not support an ag gag bill in Tennessee.

The bill, like others many states have attempted to pass, wants to make criminal the taping of activities on farms during undercover investigations.

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“Instead of protecting animals on farms from abuse, Senate Bill 1248 is a thinly veiled attempt by the agriculture industry to paralyze the efforts of those concerned about the treatment of animals to collect evidence of a pattern of routine cruelty, which has helped officials win convictions against animal abusers around the country, by forcing them to turn over evidence of single instances of abuse almost immediately. … Because there is no government inspection of farms for cruelty violations and because workers who report abuse are frequently ignored, investigations are often the only way to hold farm workers and managers accountable to existing laws.”

—Emmylou Harris, in a letter to Tennessee’s governor to veto a bill making it criminal to investigate abuse on farms through the use of undercover filming.

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“Shame on TN lawmakers for passing the Ag Gag bill. If Gov. Bill Haslam signs this, he needs to expect me at his front door. Who’s with me?”

—Carrie Underwood, in a recent Tweet on one of several bills circulating among state representatives around the country that seeks to ban undercover investigations of farm.

Shame on TN lawmakers for passing the Ag Gag bill. If Gov. Bill Haslam signs this, he needs to expect me at his front door. Who’s with me?

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) April 18, 2013

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