How the farm industry spies on animal rights activists and pushed the FBI to treat it as bioterrorists

Hundreds of e -mails And internal documents that have been checked by WIRED reveal top lobbyists and representatives of the American agricultural industry a persistent and often hidden campaign to question, discredit and suppress animal rights organizations for almost a decade, while relying on corporate spies to infiltrate and be functional.

The documents, which were mainly received by public records from the non -profit property of the people, in detail a mysterious And Long -lasting cooperation Between the weapons of the weapons of mass destruction of the FBI (WMDD) – whose current area is the Palestinian rights activists and the youngest wave of arson, the Teslas aim – and the animal agriculture (AAA), a non -profit trading group that represents the interests of the US farmers, Rancher, veterinarians and others throughout the American food chain, and are in the position, and others to align the entire American food chain.

Since at least 2018, as documents show, AAA has been providing federal agents with information on the activities of animal rights groups such as B. Direct action everywhere (DXE) With records of e -mails and meetings that reflect the broader mission of the industry, the authorities to convince that activists represent the outstanding threat to “bioterrorism” for the United States. Spies for the AAA during his collaboration with the FBI went covered with activism -meetings and received photos, audio recordings and other strategic materials. The group’s connections were used to protect actors in the public examination, to urge them to reorganize their most powerful critics and to redesign the purpose and the efforts of animal rights as a unique national security threat.

The records also show that the state authorities have cited protests as the reason for the covering of information about outbursts of illness in factory farms from the public.

Zoe Rosenberg, a UC Berkeley student and cruelty to animals at DXE, says that she is hardly surprised that powerful groups of the private sector are working on monitoring the organization, but she finds her work with the police paradox. “If someone should have the law of the law enforcement, the investigators of the cruelty to animals, the rampant violations of the law, exposing to the law, which leads to real animals, die suffer and terrible deaths,” she says.

Profiled by WIRED In 2019, DXE is a grass root organization that is dedicated to non -violent direct measures, including hidden operations This often includes the rescue of animals and the documentation of practices in factory farms, which the group considers as inhuman.

The 22 -year -old Rosenberg is charged in California justified By presenting Rosenberg as a “bios security risk” in the light of bird flu.

According to Rosenberg, DXE is based on organic safety protocols that turn the industry standards “over and over and over the entire” broke, including the quantification of their investigators for birds for a whole week before and after entering the farms. “All of our investigators before they enter a facility with hot water and soap and put on freshly washed clothing that was washed thoroughly and dried over high heat to kill viruses and bacteria,” she says. “Everything is sanitated and then disinfected again by leaving the facility.”

Rosenberg does not deny to remove the chickens that she called Poppy, Aster, Ivy and Azalea. “If we feel that an animal will die of neglect or abuse if we do not remove it from the facility, we believe that it is justified and necessary to immerse yourself in order to save your life,” she says. Her lawyer Chris Carraway says that DXE has tried to report allegations of health violations in the facility to “senselessness”. According to Rosenberg, the reporting often means that they often lead to bouncing off offices. An “infinite loop of no one who wants to take responsibility and enforce animal welfare laws”.