Farmers across the country are concerned with recent threats by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that the animal rights organization will use unmanned drones to spy on American farmers.
PETA, like many other animal rights organizations, has never shied away from controversy. Despite resistance in several agricultural states, PETA has used undercover investigations, petition drives, and other confrontational tactics to highlight animal rights concerns.
With recent announcements from farm advocacy groups that farmers are considering the domestic use of drone technology, PETA has jumped on the bandwagon, pledging to use drones to enforce hunting regulations and to monitor factory farms.
The announcement has many farmers worried. In several states, undercover animal rights activists have made controversial videotapes that have embarrassed farmers (these tapes have led some state legislatures to criminalize the production of those videos).
Farmer inquiries, however, indicate that farmers may have no recourse. If they want to keep open the option to use unmanned drones for agricultural purposes, there may be little opportunity to ban them for use by animal rights activists.
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Written by: Justin Ellison / Farm Plus Staff Writer