any factors accountable for ill practices this investigative reporting is now in jeopardy they do vandeman of agag laws which of either passed or are being considered for passage in about a dozen states so far once implemented these bills make it illegal to do any sort of undercover reporting on food processing centers in this state and pressured into censorship censorship that could have a significant impact on the kinds of checks and balances needed to ensure ethical food production and a healthy food supply so to talk about the advancement of these bills and their inevitably dangerous implications i'm joined now by will potter and a pen journalist and author of green is the new read an insider's account of the social movement under siege thanks so much for coming out of well i guess you're going to have to give us a sense in more detail than what i just said of what these bills do and what kind of penalties they hold so like you said these bills have been introduced in about ten states so far this year and they explicitly target undercover investigators whistleblowers and in some cases