On this edition of Your Call, journalist Will Potter discusses his new book, Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth from Farm to Fable .
Potter's new book is the result of a 10-year investigation on Ag-Gag laws, which classify any investigation of factory farms as an act of domestic terrorism, the powerful forces working to obscure reality and suppress protest, and animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse.
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