Hannah Thompson-Weeman

Or chaining yourself to a U-Haul outside of a poultry plant and literally saying, we want to disrupt the supply chain. We do not want chicken to be getting to the grocery store. That's when it becomes this food access issue for consumers. So we're seeing more and more discussion of this as we've seen the activists become more emboldened.

Or chaining yourself to a U-Haul outside of a poultry plant and literally saying, we want to disrupt the supply chain. We do not want chicken to be getting to the grocery store. That's when it becomes this food access issue for consumers. So we're seeing more and more discussion of this as we've seen the activists become more emboldened.

And, you know, they're talking about being inspired by groups like the Animal Liberation Front, being inspired by groups like Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty. which are the type of groups and activities, things like arson, things like harassing people's family members, making those kind of threats, which is why the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act came about.

And, you know, they're talking about being inspired by groups like the Animal Liberation Front, being inspired by groups like Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty. which are the type of groups and activities, things like arson, things like harassing people's family members, making those kind of threats, which is why the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act came about.

So we're definitely hearing more concern that these incidents as they escalate are going to get to that point. But a lot of times it's the economic damages that, again, it's a good thing that our food system is resilient and has been able to adapt around these challenges and that they haven't necessarily risen to that level. But that kind of stops cases from moving forward a lot of times.

So we're definitely hearing more concern that these incidents as they escalate are going to get to that point. But a lot of times it's the economic damages that, again, it's a good thing that our food system is resilient and has been able to adapt around these challenges and that they haven't necessarily risen to that level. But that kind of stops cases from moving forward a lot of times.

There can definitely be challenges with really pinpointing what was a cause. A very recent example, one of the most extreme groups that we follow, Direct Action Everywhere, they had an ongoing criminal trial in California stemming from various incidents there. And during the trial, they went back to some of the farms that were involved in the trial.

There can definitely be challenges with really pinpointing what was a cause. A very recent example, one of the most extreme groups that we follow, Direct Action Everywhere, they had an ongoing criminal trial in California stemming from various incidents there. And during the trial, they went back to some of the farms that were involved in the trial.

to say oh this is these problems are still happening you know we still need to keep investigating and then there were avian influenza outbreaks on those specific farms that they had been to so the california department of food and agriculture put out one of their statements saying that that was you know it's hard to say definitively so even the cdfa statement doesn't say we know that this is what caused this because it's hard to your point to pinpoint but they said this is a probable

to say oh this is these problems are still happening you know we still need to keep investigating and then there were avian influenza outbreaks on those specific farms that they had been to so the california department of food and agriculture put out one of their statements saying that that was you know it's hard to say definitively so even the cdfa statement doesn't say we know that this is what caused this because it's hard to your point to pinpoint but they said this is a probable

We have reason to believe that this could have been because it's very odd that these two farms, that these same people admitted that they went to within this timeframe, then had an outbreak within this timeframe. Back when this group really came on the scene, there was also similarly, it was on the heels of like the 2014, 2015 high path AI outbreaks.

We have reason to believe that this could have been because it's very odd that these two farms, that these same people admitted that they went to within this timeframe, then had an outbreak within this timeframe. Back when this group really came on the scene, there was also similarly, it was on the heels of like the 2014, 2015 high path AI outbreaks.

And they had gone into an egg farm that that barn of birds had to be depopulated out of concern for what could have been introduced there. Unfortunately, it is hard to necessarily pinpoint and say, you know, this is exactly what this is attributable to, which also makes it difficult for them to face consequences.

And they had gone into an egg farm that that barn of birds had to be depopulated out of concern for what could have been introduced there. Unfortunately, it is hard to necessarily pinpoint and say, you know, this is exactly what this is attributable to, which also makes it difficult for them to face consequences.

There are definitely some examples we can point to. A lot of times it is more small scale incidents. Andrew, I think it might have been the panel that you were on at our conference where I learned the term. It's not catfishing. It's romance fraud. It's the official law enforcement definition for, you know, misrepresenting who you are to strike up relationships. But we have seen that happen.

There are definitely some examples we can point to. A lot of times it is more small scale incidents. Andrew, I think it might have been the panel that you were on at our conference where I learned the term. It's not catfishing. It's romance fraud. It's the official law enforcement definition for, you know, misrepresenting who you are to strike up relationships. But we have seen that happen.

where some of these extremists will have fake online personas to strike up relationships with plant and farm workers to get information about operations.

where some of these extremists will have fake online personas to strike up relationships with plant and farm workers to get information about operations.

We've also seen that they will gain access and then get information off of computers, install spyware to, again, be able to piece together the supply chain and figure out when certain things will be happening on the farm that they want to quote unquote document or figure out what major customer restaurant retail this farm supplies to. So we've seen those kind of smaller scale incidents.

We've also seen that they will gain access and then get information off of computers, install spyware to, again, be able to piece together the supply chain and figure out when certain things will be happening on the farm that they want to quote unquote document or figure out what major customer restaurant retail this farm supplies to. So we've seen those kind of smaller scale incidents.