Direct Action Everywhere practices what it calls “Open Rescue” which involves criminal trespass and stealing animals raised by farmers, ranchers and breeders, and believes such conduct should be legal because
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Agroterrorism
The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act and Undercover Employees
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In recent years, farmers and ranchers have been increasingly targeted by animal rights groups trespassing on their properties, stealing farm animals, and other acts of vandalism. The frequency with which…
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Update on efforts to protect the U.S. food supply from agroterrorism
By Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M. on
The recent horrific attacks in Syria reminded me of the concerns following 9/11 about potential attacks on livestock and poultry. Those concerns rose to the highest echelon in our government…
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