ag-gag

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Adjective

ag-gag (not comparable)

  1. (of a law) That prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
    • 2015, Gregg Barak, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of the Crimes of the Powerful:
      "Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement."

Noun

ag-gag (plural ag-gags)

  1. A law that prevents undercover or unauthorized investigations at agricultural facilities.
    • 2015, H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha, The Ecopolitics of Consumption: The Food Trade:
      "However, the proliferation of ag-gag also has other insidious ramifications at the local, national, and global scales."