Big Picture Interview – Patty Lovera, Assistant Director-Food & Water Watch RE: New Report Exposes “Big Ag’s Gag Agenda.” Every single day people risk prosecution and jail time just to tell the truth. And no – this isn’t happening in some foreign dictatorship – it’s happening right here in the United States of America. Thanks to a set of laws known colloquially as “ag-gag” laws – the American agricultural industry is waging war on your constitutional right to free speech.