ARLINGTON, Va. — Animal rights extremists are always on the lookout for new opportunities to attempt to portray animal agriculture negatively – and they’re not above using unfortunate circumstances to further their campaigns and spread fear with consumers. At the Animal Agriculture Alliance, we’ve seen them aggressively target farms that are still moving on from recent barn fire losses; harass processors struggling to keep the supply chain flowing during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic; and now target farmers grappling with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in their flocks.
The intersection of animal and public health has never received. . .