In light of Aussie Farms’s online map of abattoirs and farms, dairy farmers are prepared for animal rights intruders and will take measures to defend themselves. Below is an interview with Australia’s National Farmers Federation President Fiona Simpson who appeared on ABC News for an interview about the online map and the implications for the…
The UK Guardian reports Australia’s agriculture minister, David Littleproud, has urged the animal rights group Aussie Farms to remove a map the group published online revealing the locations of farms and abattoirs. Littleproud is concerned that its presence would enable people to conduct acts of terrorism and trespassing. Aussie Farms denies their map would lead…
Dairy farmers state they’re the subject of harassment and intimidation by animal rights activists and have been warned of planned protesters. CBS Sacramento reported on this citing dairy farmer Hank Van Exel of Lodi.
Cork County, Ireland dairy farmer Peter Hynes is the target of animal rights activist online trolls after he posted a video of one of his cows giving birth on Twitter. Upon his doing so, the Farming Independent reports Hynes was bombarded with insulting tweets calling Hynes a Nazi, a rapist and of stabbing animals in…
On Tuesday close to 50 terrorists from the group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) took it upon themselves to harass and slander Zonneveld Dairy located in Layton, California which is in Fresno County. The group went so far as to publicize their theft of a calf from the dairy claiming it was their rescuing the animal…
Despite lawsuit threats from an irrigation company, Greenpeace activists have begun occupying a dam construction site in Canterbury, New Zealand which is in the same region as Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island. Voxy reports Central Plains Water wants to construct the dam as part of an irrigation plan they seek to build across the…
Back in mid-November, I blogged about an attempt by environmentalists to change the meeting location of a New Mexico environmental panel seeking input on new waste water rules on dairy farms. The meeting was scheduled to be held in Roswell but Sierra Club wanted to have the meetings held in New Mexico’s capitol, Santa Fe.…
