Voice of the 'Fan

By now, you've heard about Direct Action Everywhere's latest pathetic stunt for attention.

Before we go any further, DAE is staging these in game protests, first during the NBA playoffs six months ago, and now during NFL games, to call attention to two of their number being on trial for abducting two piglets from a Smithfield Farms-affiliated farm five years ago, claiming the farm abused the piglets and other animals. Smithfield is owned by Glen Taylor, whom I believe closed the deal to sell off the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. It's not a coincidence that both times they've interrupted nationally televised football games, the Los Angeles Rams played in those games-----and lost them both.

Alex Taylor is milking his 15 minutes by alleging assault against the Rams' Bobby Wagner, Takkarist McKinney, or both. We've not gotten any updates since October 5. Taylor & DAE should've learned their lesson from their last stunt in September, when two female DAE operatives were similarly removed from the field, but they didn't.

In this writer's opinion, they're going about things the wrong way.

What DAE should be doing, since they have the resources to buy game tickets, is organizing a press conference to properly address their gripes against Smithfield. Unfortunately, their juvenile stunts will continue, ignorant of the fact that the reason they're not getting the press coverage they feel they need is because of other, more important, real world issues, such as the war between Russia & Ukraine, the fallout from Hurricane Ian, and a certain bloviator who can't go a day without needing attention for his various gripes, real or imagined.

Ultimately, Alex Taylor's case will be dismissed, and DAE will try again, because they're too ignorant to recognize a solution when it's right in front of them. Their loss, not ours.