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Animal activists find new ways to harass livestock producers

Kay Johnson Smith of the Animal Agriculture Alliance discusses activist threats during the organization’s virtual stakeholders summit.

The president and CEO of the Animal Agriculture Alliance, Kay Johnson Smith, says animal rights activists have adopted some new tactics to harass livestock producers.

“More recently we’ve seen mass protests where hundreds of activists are showing up on farms,” Johnson Smith says. “They’re stealing animals in the dead of the night, and sometimes in broad daylight, and they’re very proud of it. They’re livestreaming their efforts and posting it all over social media.”

She says there have also been reports of activists “stalking” truck drivers as they haul animals from farms to processing plants, or from farm to farm.

“They’re trying to find opportunities to stop those truckers to interact with the animals. They’re holding vigils outside of the trucks and asking if they can just give food or water or pet the animals inside the truck. It creates a lot of concerns, not only for the animals, but also for the truck drivers.”

Johnson Smith discussed activist threats during the Animal Ag Alliance’s virtual stakeholders summit on Friday.

  • The irony is, of course, that had our ancestors not eaten meat, these “activists” wouldn`t even BE here. They typically have no understanding of the natural world. There has never been any wild-living vegan culture; the few vegetarian cultures live in very warm climates and in close proximity to free-roaming cattle whose dung dust, believe it, contains Vitamin B12 (ruminants synthesise this vitamin with the help of their rumen bacteria and elemental cobalt).
    The Inuit, before the advent of Europeans, did just fine for thousands of years on a diet consisting of 80% animal fat.
    When i was a traditional farmer, my livestock were leading much better lives than they would have had in the wild. Those I slaughtered for meat also had deaths much quicker and much more humane than happens in the wild. These “activists” believe that Disney is gospel and they project their rage and hatred of people onto us farmers. They know almost nothing about the animals they wish to “save”.
    We`ve had animal agriculture for ten thousand years. Vegansim on the other hand is a recent phenomenon of the urban leisure class.

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