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
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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Global Animal Disease Threats
By Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M. on
Infectious disease outbreaks often make headlines when they affect humans-think Zika virus-but it is not often that animal disease outbreaks make it above the fold assuming they make news at…
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