After Pork Giant Was Exposed for Cruel Killings, the FBI Pursued Its Critics
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Photo caption: Animal activists offer drinks and vegetarian sandwiches to workers finishing their shift […]. Photo credit: Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Lee Fang. The Intercept – February 17, 2021.
The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.
Last June, Noel Williams, the chief operations officer of Iowa Select Farms, a powerful pork company and the largest in Iowa, pulled into the parking lot of an empty housing complex typically used for the firm’s immigrant workforce.
He was there to transport Lucas Walker, a former truck driver for Iowa Select, to a meeting with Nick Potratz, an FBI agent from the Des Moines office of the bureau. That’s according to Walker, who had recently tried to report Iowa Select, his former employer, for mistreating animals. After The Intercept published leaked video of pigs being killed off en masse, Walker came under scrutiny. […]
