Animal Activists Get it Wrong: Farmers Are Not the Problem

Clothing-coordinated activists who stormed an Australian farm take a group photo for Facebook

The Australian state of New South Wales has introduced on-the-spot trespassing charges of $1,000 for each animal activist caught illegally entering private farmland. The penalties follow a series of recent demonstrations and instances of direct action staged by activists at private farms and slaughterhouses. There is apparently consideration of adding jail time and additional fines to the…