Anti-hunting, anti-animal agriculture activists are deploying a new tactic in their crusade in the United States. They are failing to get their way through democratic, voter-approved legislative channels and are often on the losing end of judicial, court-based lawfare attempts so they are turning to a new option – Big Banks.
Just at the time when President Donald Trump successfully urged major banking institutions to abandon their previously held politics-based lending protocols to discriminate against politically-disfavored industries, including the lawful and highly-regulated firearm industry, anti-hunting animal rights groups are pushing them in the opposite direction and back towards a policy of denying banking services and financial products to disfavored businesses.
Gun control groups had recently made some temporary inroads by getting the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to create a gun-related Merchant Category Code (MCC) for credit and debit card companies to use to track cardholders’ purchases of firearms and ammunition. Banks largely announced they would not be moving forward with implementing the code. Now, animal rights activists at organizations like the Humane World for Animals are pushing similar discrimination efforts on the global financial system to penalize animal agriculture businesses.
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