The Animal Agriculture Alliance has concluded its release of reports from five prominent animal rights extremist conferences held over the course of 2022. The conferences included Humane Society of the United States’ Taking Action for Animals (TAFA) Conference (held July 16-17), The Rancher Advocacy Program’s (RAP) Summit (held July 30), Animal Place’s Farmed Animal Conference E-Summit (FACES) (held Sept. 16-18), Animal Legal Defense Fund’s (ALDF) Animal Law Symposium (held Sept. 24), and ALDF and the Center for Animal Law Studies’ Animal Law Conference (held Nov. 4-6).
The key claims and takeaways from these events included the following: animal rights activists aim to advance the interest of animals through the legal system by utilizing “undercover videos” as evidence in court; activists believe the marketing of plant-based products and promotion of animal rights needs to speak to the emotions of the consumer rather than the intellectual messaging that currently compares alternatives to meat, milk, poultry and eggs; and activists are pressuring elected officials to include animal rights in their political campaigns in order to bring their cause to the legislature.