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October 9, 2024
The Intercept
Videos shared with The Intercept prior to the report’s public release show, among other scenes, lambs with their throats slit hanging upside down and thrashing on the slaughter line; one animal with an internal organ that has been torn inside-out and left dangling behind it as it heads to slaughter; injured lambs being led to slaughter; workers laughing, spanking animals, and engaging in simulated sex acts with nearby machinery as lambs are having their throats slit; and the apparent use of so-called Judas sheep — adult sheep kept alive at the facility and used to lead the young sheep to slaughter.
TOP PRESS
October 9, 2024
The Intercept
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April 14, 2022
The Intercept
DxE documented video footage of the depopulation at Rembrandt Enterprises, demonstrating the brutal reality of VSD and the true toll of our broken "food" system.
TOP PRESS
April 14, 2022
The Intercept
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April 13, 2022
The Sacramento Bee
Polite attempts to change this through conventional channels have failed. Activists must violate decorum and risk their personal reputations to reveal oppression and challenge injustice.
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April 13, 2022
The Sacramento Bee
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April 13, 2022
Huffington Post
A woman protesting the mass killing of chickens tried to glue herself to a basketball court Tuesday during a play-in game between the host Minnesota Timberwolves and the Los Angeles Clippers.
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April 13, 2022
Huffington Post
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April 11, 2022
Criminal complaints were submitted to Iowa Attorney General’s Office and county attorney, alleging criminal livestock neglect
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April 11, 2022
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April 10, 2022
UCB administrators claim the world’s largest chicken producer doesn’t use factory farming
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April 10, 2022
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April 7, 2022
The Sacramento Bee
“This bill, the ‘No More Factory Farms’ bill, should have been heard, and I’m here to make sure that that happens,” Cabral said after her microphone was cut.
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April 5, 2022
Bill for moratorium against new factory farms was changed into bill calling for a study of the industry’s impacts
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April 5, 2022
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March 31, 2022
Mercury News
In the midst of the turmoil over our diminishing water supply, an often-overlooked industry operates without scrutiny — consuming the lion’s share of California’s diminishing water
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March 31, 2022
Mercury News
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March 22, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
Compelling testimony by a former slaughterhouse worker who is now a member of DxE's core organizing team.
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March 22, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
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November 7, 2017
Mother Jones
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November 1, 2017
The Intercept
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October 5, 2017
The Intercept
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September 14, 2017
The Washington Post
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July 6, 2017
The New York Times
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October 20, 2016
The Washington Post
While the hens are not in cages, the video shows them crowded together, covered in feces and blood, struggling to breathe and attacking and even eating one other.
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January 8, 2015
The New York Times
An animal rights group released on Thursday a disturbing video of laying hens at a farm in Northern California that supplies eggs to Whole Foods and Organic Valley, among other retailers and distributors.
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PRESS RELEASE
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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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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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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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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August 20, 2024
Charges to be Dismissed for Third Time in Perdue Chicken Rescue Case
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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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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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July 19, 2024
The Ramona factory farm was the site of a 2019 animal cruelty investigation by Direct Action Everywhere
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May 13, 2024
Berkeley student in Perdue poultry case now faces 1 felony and 3 misdemeanors
