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Farm groups are organizing to defeat a ballot measure that could make Sonoma County the first county in the nation to ban concentrated animal feeding operations by popular vote.

Although outright sabotage of livestock operations and animal research facilities has declined in the U.S. since enactment of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) in 2006, the threat of “animal rights” extremists remains. according to a former mink raiser whose Washington-state operation was put out of business by a 2003 raid.