I’ve written many times previously about the latest happenings of extreme activist group Direct Action Everywhere. While I hate to give them any more of the attention they so desperately seek, I think it is important to keep you informed of their tactics and strategies as they work toward their goal of “total animal liberation.” Earlier this month, one of DXE’s main ‘organizers’ went live on Facebook to announce a new initiative – a “Frontline Surveillance Program.” She described the program as “essentially open rescue but in a different way” – “open rescue” is DXE’s term for when they trespass onto farms or into plants and steal livestock or poultry. The purpose of the new ‘surveillance’ program is to “to accumulate an extensive amount of investigatory footage, evidence, data…and basically all of this is to showcase that criminal animal cruelty is happening all the time, everywhere.”Farmers, plant employees, drivers and anyone else working with livestock should be increasingly vigilant for suspicious activity including drone sightings, suspicious vehicles, strange phone calls/emails, etc. Any suspicious activity should be immediately reported to company contacts, trade associations and the Alliance so we can spread the word.