Comment from vishal shah
vishal shahOpposeIndividual
Summary: The commenter opposes the proposed restriction on unmanned aircraft near fixed site facilities, arguing that drones are essential tools for exposing animal cruelty and environmental violations in the food system. They highlight how aerial footage has been used to hold producers accountable for deceptive marketing and poor conditions.
FAA Regulations is making cruelty easier and that is a big problem.
That means the exact tool that has exposed animal cruelty, environmental violations, and consumer fraud in the food system could disappear, with no evidence drones pose any safety or security risk to these facilities.
Aerial footage is how we've seen what the industry doesn't want seen. Flooded manure lagoons after Hurricane Florence. Mass culling during avian and swine flu outbreaks. Feedlots holding over 100,000 cattle. Egg farms marketed as "free-roaming" that were anything but. In one case, footage secured by Animal Outlook and We Animals helped win a class action settlement against an egg producer that lied about how its hens were housed.