Animal Rights Groups Want To End Livestock Production
The National Animal Rights Conference held last week confirms supporters of the animal rights movement don’t want to work with livestock producers, they want to end livestock production.
Kay Johnson Smith, CEO of the Animal Ag Alliance, says animal rights activists made their goals clear – ending all forms of animal agriculture, regardless of how well animals are cared for.
Johnson Smith said the groups “persistent focus on pressure campaigns targeting restaurant, retail and food service brands is of great concern.”
Activists in attendance were encouraged to be as extreme as possible to advance their goals, including breaking the law when necessary. Attendees were also told to pressure restaurants, retail and foodservice brands to adopt certain policies with the end goal of forcing them to stop selling animal products.
Relating to livestock farming, the activists were told to “Please stop saying factory farming” as they believe that phrase has done its job in demonizing America’s larger animal production operations. Now the groups hope to paint all farms, regardless of size as cruel to animals.
Over the past few years activists have succeeded in forcing food companies to adopt various animal welfare programs such as “cage-free” eggs, but those practices do not go far enough, speakers at the conference said. They believe that all animal agriculture is bad, regardless of what the labels on food products say.
Well those animal rights activists need to be told that if they get their own way, what they are promoting will be responsible for brutally killing/slaughtering hundreds of millions of wonderful animals, and if they are pushing that, then had better be the ones who go out and butcher all of them too!!
It’s sheer mindlessness on their part. Claiming everybody is cruel to animals, yet what they would be pushing is death to all those same animals! I mean, WHERE do they think all these farm animals WILL GO, if they have no farm to live on??? Every animal that has to leave the farm they’re at is an animal that will be put to death, and most likely at a slaughter plant. That is the definition of cruelty in my book.
Those people are total hypocrites.
They should eliminate the 2nd amendment before they eliminate steaks, hamburgers, hotdogs, and pretty much every other food item American’s love! Forced vegetarianism, that would be fun to watch!