North Carolina can't ban undercover filming inside animal farms

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7. Like most things, lots of gray area.

But if there are humane treatment laws in NC, it may be legalities and not just someone's opinion of farming practices. It depends.

On zoning, you're bumping into the limits of one's rights, i.e. your rights end precisely where they begin to infringe on others rights. Among other things, zoning laws protect the value and use of other people's property from being infringed on by someone else's use of their property. If I setup a junkyard next to your house, and the value of your property plummets, I doubt you'd be terribly happy about it and rightly so. Rights are not just freedoms, they come with obligations. The simplest of which is, do no harm to others in exercising your freedom.