Posted on 09/09/2022 7:46:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK...............
Two activists interrupted the first game of the NFL season Thursday night in an apparent protest against the arrest of two animal rights advocates who were charged in 2017 for “rescuing” piglets from a factory farm.
Katia Shokrai and Emek Echo, two activists with Direct Action Everywhere, stormed the field during the football game as the Buffalo Bills faced the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium in California. The pair ran across the field with smoke flares in their hands before being tackled by security guards.
The activists were protesting the arrest of two of the group’s investigators, Paul Darwin Picklesimer and Wayne Hsiung, who were charged with burglary and theft in 2017. Picklesimer and Hsiung broke into a farm located in Milford, Utah, to film the living conditions of the animals and took two piglets from Circle Four Farms, operated by Smithfield Foods, during the incident.
"Smithfield, like the animal agriculture industry itself, is a barbaric house of cards — built on unconscionable, systemic abuse, and desperate attempts to shield that abuse from the public eye," Shokrai said in a statement. "I want the world to know that animal rescuers are facing years in prison because of this company’s undue influence on our democracy."
Five activists were arrested in relation to the incident, with the other three entering into plea deals. However, Picklesimer and Hsiung declined similar deals, noting they want to use the trial to establish a legal precedent limiting torture at animal farms, according to New Republic.
Their trial is set for October, and the two face up to $332,000 in fines and several years in prison.
NFL Ping!.....................sorta...............
Were they topless?
There’s that WORD again .............”our democracy.”..................
No, but they were BRAINLESS..........................😁😎
What’s the NFL?
Do people who pull off these stunts, really think it gets people to support their cause? Did the people in the stadium ever really know why idiots were out there on the field, and what cause they were demonstrating support for?
NFL woke encounters protester woker. The downward spiral.
National Felons League. It has something to do with a game of some sort.
NFL woke encounters protester woker.
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Summed it up nicely.
Yeah, but bacon tastes GOOD;
pork chops taste GOOD...
This isn’t the way to bring attention to FBI/prosecutor/Smithfield abuses, intimidation and bullying.
The two lawyers that filmed the pigs’ conditions, whisked two piglets away to safety, and sent the footage to the news media are going to get their trial next month. Work within the system.
That is the one good thing about the NFL broadcasts. They WILL NOT show the people on TV that run out on the field.
They did show a security person picking up one of the smoke flares off of the field.
The sad reality is that raising animals to be slaughtered for our food can be done in less inhumane ways, but the suffering of animals is not even considered when profit is the sole motive.
Finally, some good news.
Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie.
One funny-assed conversation.
I seem to remember Smithville being owned by China
There was an NFL game last night...?
How’d they get into the stadium with smoke flares? One rainy-day game years ago I couldn’t even bring in my umbrella! Had to take it back to the car.
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