COVID-19 isn’t the only thing I would have liked to leave behind in 2020. Animal-rights activist attacks also rise to the top of my list. Animal-rights activists never miss an opportunity to kick animal agriculture when its down, and the Coronavirus pandemic was no exception. Groups have fed on the current state of events, running rampant over the last several months.
Animal-rights groups have continually attempted to tie the pandemic to animal agriculture, taken advantage of labor shortages to attempt to get hired to film “undercover” videos, lurked around processing facilities in search of kill floor workers to become “whistleblowers” against the animal agriculture community, and aligned with the workers’ rights movement to call for the shutdown of plants across the country. More extreme groups have even gone so far as to break into facilities to “rescue” animals.