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Animal rights activists sue Beaver County for allegedly violating First Amendment rights

August 3, 2022

Fox 13 Salt Lake City

Animal rights activists are filing a lawsuit for what they believe is active repression of their criticism of animal cruelty occurring at Smithfield’s Circle Four Farms.

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Animal rights activists sue Beaver County for allegedly violating First Amendment rights

August 3, 2022

Fox 13 Salt Lake City

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Utah police intimidated animal-rights activists and blamed them for pig farm layoffs, lawsuit says

August 3, 2022

Salt Lake City Tribune

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Utah police intimidated animal-rights activists and blamed them for pig farm layoffs, lawsuit says

August 3, 2022

Salt Lake City Tribune

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Two cows freed themselves, but now they’re at risk of slaughter again.

August 3, 2022

A dramatic story is unfolding right now in Newfane, New York after two cows freed themselves from a “beef” farm and luckily wandered onto the property of Asha’s Farm Sanctuary.

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Two cows freed themselves, but now they’re at risk of slaughter again.

August 3, 2022

Let this story be a reminder that animals do fight for their freedom and that they participate in their own liberation.

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SF Giants MLB Game DISRUPTED By Animal Activists in YODA and DARTH VADER Costumes

July 31, 2022

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SF Giants MLB Game DISRUPTED By Animal Activists in YODA and DARTH VADER Costumes

July 31, 2022

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Activists Protest Foster City's Plan to Kill 100 Geese Over Poop Problem, Health Risk

July 25, 2022

NBC Bay Area

Animal rights activists are not giving up in a fight to stop the killing of 100 geese on the Peninsula.

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Activists Protest Foster City's Plan to Kill 100 Geese Over Poop Problem, Health Risk

July 25, 2022

NBC Bay Area

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On the Anniversary of Unseen, We Came to Bear Witness

July 21, 2022

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On the Anniversary of Unseen, We Came to Bear Witness

July 21, 2022

Activists gathered for a vigil exactly two years after the release of Unseen, a documentary that exposed the horrors inside Yosemite Foods, a slaughterhouse in Stockton, California, that kills 2,000 pigs every day.

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What I learned from saving Chester – then watching him die

July 19, 2022

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What I learned from saving Chester – then watching him die

July 19, 2022

DxE co-founder Wayne Hsiung recently shared the story of a very sick pig who was rescued from Farmer John. This is an excerpt from his Substack blog, The Simple Heart.

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Supporters at “Vigil at Yosemiteville Horror” Event to Comfort Pigs Outside Slaughterhouse

July 14, 2022

Animal rights advocates gathered to mark the two-year anniversary of the release of Unseen, an undercover mini-documentary exposing extreme cruelty inside this facility, and to bear witness and spread compassion for its victims.

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Supporters at “Vigil at Yosemiteville Horror” Event to Comfort Pigs Outside Slaughterhouse

July 14, 2022

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A Bird Flu Depopulation Method So Cruel, Veterinarians Yell Foul

July 8, 2022

CounterPunch

A VSD occurrence at Rembrandt Farms in Rembrandt, Iowa is particularly troubling says Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) who did the onsite investigation.

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A Bird Flu Depopulation Method So Cruel, Veterinarians Yell Foul

July 8, 2022

CounterPunch

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They Rescued Pigs and Turkeys from Factory Farms - and Now Face Decades in Prison

December 23, 2018

The Intercept

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Activists Briefly Occupy Amazon Chicken Supplier to Treat ‘Sick, Starving’ Birds

September 29, 2018

Forbes

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Animal Rights Activists Face Multiple Felony Charges, Brought by Prosecutors With Ties to Smithfield Foods

June 7, 2018

The Intercept

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39 Arrested Protesting Industrial Farm Supplying So-Called "Cage-Free" Eggs to Amazon and Whole Foods

May 30, 2018

Democracy Now!

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Animal rights activists who removed two piglets from factory farm charged after FBI raids

May 25, 2018

The Washington Post

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Bred to Suffer: Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation

May 17, 2018

The Intercept

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America's largest pork producer pledged to make its meat more humane. An investigation says it didn't.

May 8, 2018

Vox

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Six Animal Rights Activists Charged With Felonies for Investigation and Rescue That Led to Punishment of a Utah Turkey Farm

May 4, 2018

The Intercept

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Fur Is Dead: Animal Welfare Groups Cheer San Francisco Ban

March 20, 2018

The New York Times

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Notes on the Removal of Aidan Hill from DxE

August 19, 2020

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How One Bird's Death Illustrates Our Nation’s Pandemic Failures (and its Hope)

August 14, 2020

The diseases suffered by Nina and her species never should have existed. Now, they threaten us all -- but her story should give us hope.

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Breaking: Gruesome Footage Shows Pigs Roasted Alive At Iowa’s Leading Pork Supplier Amid Coronavirus Crisis

June 29, 2020

Workers forced to kill thousands of pigs with extreme heat and steam

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Activists Arrested After Burying Piglets At CEO’s Mansion Following Gruesome “Pandemic Depopulation” Exposé At Iowa’s Leading Pork Producer

June 11, 2020

Investigators say “ventilation shutdown” is criminal livestock neglect as pigs are “roasted alive”

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SF Board Of Supervisors Votes To Support Factory Farm Whistleblowers Facing Prison Time

June 9, 2020

Bay Area residents face criminal charges after rescuing dying animals from Sonoma County factory farms

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What Business Insider Is Getting Wrong About DxE (And Me)

May 12, 2020

An Unfiltered Q&A With A Publication That’s Planning An “Exposé” Of DxE

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Saul Elbein, Business Insider, And The Smearing Of Animal Rights Activists

May 8, 2020

How money and drugs corrupted the story of a pig farmer who was prosecuted for saving his pigs.

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Coordinated Nationwide Protests Against Smithfield Follow Outbreaks, Exposés And Prosecutions

April 18, 2020

Protesters of Smithfield slaughterhouses and vendors say it undermines the well-being of employees, animals, whistleblowers and the public

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Traditions Can Change - Even Religious Traditions

April 16, 2020

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Animal Rights Activists Create Giant “Death for Dinner” Display Outside Oakland Safeway

December 14, 2024

Activists covered in fake blood lay down on a giant “plate” to bring attention to the violence behind serving dead animals as food during the holidays. Protestors also called on Safeway to cut ties with Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry, where undercover investigations have exposed sick and injured animals left without care.

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Berkeley Becomes First U.S. City to Ban Factory Farms

November 12, 2024

A coalition of groups, including the Berkeley-based animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) and Compassionate Bay, led the effort to gather the signatures to get this CAFO ban on the ballot.

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Trial Scheduled for Animal Rescuer

November 1, 2024

Zoe Rosenberg, 22, faces criminal charges for rescuing chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse in Petaluma, CA

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Investigators Publish Full Day of Slaughter Footage at Superior Farms, Exposing Routine Cruelty and Violence

October 29, 2024

Superior Farms is the largest industrial lamb slaughterhouse in the country, and is the subject of Ordinance 309 in Denver, an initiative on the November ballot introduced by Pro-Animal Future that would ban slaughterhouses within city limits

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Prosecutors Concede Evidence Doesn’t Support Felony in Animal Rescue Case

August 20, 2024

Charges to be Dismissed for Third Time in Perdue Chicken Rescue Case

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Food Network Chef Tyler Florence Cuts Ties with Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry, Following Repeated Protests

August 15, 2024

Animal rights activists with Direct Action Everywhere disrupted Florence at events across the country in recent months calling for the move

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Activists Disrupt Food Network Chef Tyler Florence’s Restaurant, Over Ties to Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry

July 20, 2024

On Saturday evening, animal rights activists protested inside and outside of Miller & Lux, an upscale steakhouse in Mission Bay that is owned by celebrity chef Tyler Florence. The protesters were calling on Florence to cut ties with Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry. They marched and chanted through the restaurant, holding signs that read “Drop Petaluma Poultry” and “Stop Supporting Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry’s Criminal Animal Abuse.”

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Massive Barn Fire Kills Tens of Thousands of Chickens at Demler Brothers Egg Ranch

July 19, 2024

The Ramona factory farm was the site of a 2019 animal cruelty investigation by Direct Action Everywhere

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Judge Dismisses Multiple Felonies Against Animal Rescuer

May 13, 2024

Berkeley student in Perdue poultry case now faces 1 felony and 3 misdemeanors

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