Farm shows what animals look like in animal rights activists’ videos and why

2023-04-17 07:14:56

Farm shows what animals look like in animal rights activists’ videos and why

Anneke Struck, AGRARHEUTE*

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Breaking into livestock buildings at night is a crime and the resulting videos often give a false image.

Elisa is not the only one to think that animal protection sometimes goes too far. So she breaks into her family’s barn at night without hesitation and shows why these videos look the way they do.

Videos of barn intrusions, shot by animal protection activists following illegally breaking into them, are regularly broadcast on all media channels around the world. It shows how self-proclaimed animal advocates, armed with flashlights and hooded, go into buildings housing cows, poultry and pigs and pace them.

The videos then show frightened animals, piled on top of each other. If breeders are rarely responsible for this image, activists are in most cases. In this outfit, at this time, in the single light beam of a flashlight, barns, animals and their detention always look dark, as if the animals are sick or abused.

Inform regarding videos of intrusion into livestock buildings

In order to consciously clear up the situation once and for all, Elisa breaks into her own buildings and shows in a video Instagram how such images are produced. She explains that the hens don’t run out of space in the light of the flashlight, but they just all huddle together on the roost to sleep at night. Similarly, pigs don’t look frightened because of the way they are kept, but because they are disturbed and dazzled in the middle of the night. At the end, Elisa once once more invites everyone who wants to visit her farm to come – during the day!

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* Anneke Struck works at AGRICULTURAL TODAY as a cross-media editor in the livestock section and the cattle special.

Source : Operation shows: That’s why animals in animal rights videos look like this | agrarheute.com

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