{"id":769006,"date":"2022-07-08T06:52:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=769006"},"modified":"2022-07-08T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:38:07","slug":"animal-rights-activists-drone-video-details-livestock-cruelty-on-factory-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=769006","title":{"rendered":"EVIL IS IN THE AIR: Animal rights activists\u2019 drone video details livestock cruelty on factory farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The the drone video was uploaded to a few Reddit subreddits, and generated over 13,000 variously lamenting, revolted, or outraged comments. It should suffice to inspire pity and disgust in even unapologetic meat and dairy product consumers.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>BRUCE CRUMLEY:<\/strong> The broadening deployment of UAVs [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles] for rapidly diversifying purposes in recent years has allowed operators to get eyes on \u2013 and in \u2013 places that were previously inaccessible, when not intentionally shut away from outside observers. Among organizations that have taken to the skies for closer looks are animal rights activists, who now operate drone missions to obtain video evidence of inhumane treatment of livestock on massive \u201cfactory farms.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The most recent example of that work by animal rights activists was a highly effective \u00adand very disturbing drone video of an enormous dairy farm. After an opening shot of three cows feeding in cramped plywood stalls, the video gradually pulls away to expose countless more of the creatures standing in similar conditions over an area so vast the UAV\u2019s camera can\u2019t frame the entire space. Closing footage from the craft backing away features a giant body of liquid beside the complex \u2013 almost certainly a manure lagoon whose normal healthy greenish tint has turned a sickly pink.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Whether typical of industrial livestock practices, or just one of the cruel outliers that animal activists continue catching in the act, the drone video should suffice to inspire pity and disgust in even unapologetic meat and dairy product consumers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The expos\u00e9 was uploaded to a few Reddit subreddits, and generated over 13,000 variously lamenting, revolted, or outraged comments. One contributor sourced the video to rights group Mercy for Animals, though the organization doesn\u2019t include it amid the other drone investigations it has produced. The group\u2019s webpage says it operates 13 UAVs that have gotten elevated shots of 46 different factory farms, generating footage seen 23 million times on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Whether the group was behind the video or not, the post does attain the objectives it\u2019s after when it takes to the air&#8230; The organization is one of many animal rights groups flying drones to video inhumane industrial farming practices. Others included Dominion, Drones for Animal Defense, and the Protection for the Ethical Treatment of Animals\u2019 aerial captures of cruelty to livestock on such facilities, as well as brutal practices of hunters in the wild.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Are those drone-generated additions as effective as the on ground images that undercover animal activists have shot after penetrating factory farms in the past?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cFactory? That\u2019s a goddamn death camp,\u201d responded YungestBongs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cI had to go dairy-free while breastfeeding my newborn and I am NOT going back thanks to this video,\u201d added menstrualfarts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cYeah, I\u2019m going completely dairy free as of now,\u201d pledged CaspinLange. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/dronedj.com\/2022\/07\/06\/animal-rights-activists-drone-video-details-livestock-cruelty-on-factory-farms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>SOURCE&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"reddit-embed\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redditmedia.com\/r\/interestingasfuck\/comments\/vm6rz8\/drone_footage_of_a_dairy_farm\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share&amp;embed=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"620\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUCE CRUMLEY: The broadening deployment of UAVs [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles] for rapidly diversifying purposes in recent years has allowed operators to get eyes on \u2013 and in \u2013 places that were previously inaccessible, when not intentionally shut away from outside observers. 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