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Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) is an international grassroots network of animal rights activists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Direct Action Everywhere press page )〕 The group calls for total animal liberation. Direct Action Everywhere holds protests in restaurants, grocery stores, and other venues to challenge speciesism. DxE activists also performed an investigation of a farm which supplies eggs to Whole Foods Market and other retailers. ==History== DxE's first action occurred in January 2013. Six activists demonstrated in front of a meat counter at a Sprouts Farmers Market, contending that the items being sold there behind the counter were not food but "the torment and suffering of billions of our friends in factory farms and slaughterhouses."〔 Soon thereafter, DxE launched campaigns against corporations, notably Chipotle and Whole Foods, which they considered to be purveyors of the "humane myth"—the idea that there are "humane" ways to kill unconsenting beings that do not want to die.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Direct Action Everywhere: FAQ )〕 Numerous demonstrations—"speak-ins" and "die-ins"—were staged in Chipotle restaurants as well as other establishments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Direct Action Everywhere: Past Action Videos )〕 One of the more widely shared was that of an activist named Kelly Atlas, who gave a monologue in an unidentified restaurant testifying that the restaurant and others like it were responsible for horribly mistreating and murdering the likes of her "little girl" Snow, a chicken who had been rescued from a factory farm. Responses appeared on numerous news websites. Afterward, Ms. Atlas had exchanges in traditional media with Glenn Beck〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=YouTube )〕 and Dr. Drew.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Vegan rant goes viral: 'This isn't food, it's violence' )〕 In response to mockery by Mr. Beck, Ms. Atlas released a short video telling the story of Snow the rescued chicken. On January 7, 2015, DxE released an open rescue investigation video of laying hens at a Northern California farm that supplies eggs to Whole Foods.〔 In the video, which featured footage of crowded, dirty henhouses and injured birds, DxE contended that the hens' welfare was severely compromised, even though numerous boards had labeled the farm as 'Certified Humane.' The original actions were organized around the San Francisco Bay Area. By December 2014, DxE's network had grown to at least 90 cities in 20 countries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Direct Action Everywhere」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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