First, a question: Do you think animal welfare activists should be charged with a crime for misrepresenting themselves in order to video-record brutal treatment of animals or other abuses in food processing plants? Now, another: What about when anti-abortion activists misrepresent themselves in order to record Planned Parenthood officials discussing the use of aborted fetuses for medical research? Not much difference, is there? Actually, there is one difference. No one claims the 2012 recording of workers at Idaho's Bettencourt Dairies' Dry Creek Dairy beating and otherwise mistreating cows was altered to distort the facts/Jim Fisher, Lewiston Tribune. More here.