BY CONNOR RICHARDS / MAY 21, 2019 – Peninsula Press Mike Weber starts his days early at the family-owned egg farm, Weber Family Farms, in Petaluma, a North Bay city where poultry processing makes up 1.7% of all employment. As one of the facility’s owners, his younger brother is the other owner, Weber is responsible…
A recent PORK Poll taken during late February by Farm Journal cited by AGWEB has some harrowing results for farmers involved in cattle, pork and other meat-related industries. The respondents cited four messages consumers will hear about in the coming year: greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), taking meat out of the diet, alternative proteins and animals’…
In the past few weeks harassment of Western Australian farmers has been getting worse. Farm Weekly reveals that arguments between farmers and animal rights activists that occurred on social media are now being conducted person-to-person and the results are not pretty. Dairy farmer Jason Parravicini got into an argument with thugs with the group Direct…
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…
