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Are "Nice" Vegans Making Us Look Bad?

December 2, 2015

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Are "Nice" Vegans Making Us Look Bad?

December 2, 2015

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Coming Together on Fur Free Friday

November 27, 2015

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Coming Together on Fur Free Friday

November 27, 2015

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Is Whole Foods Doubling Down on Fraud?

November 25, 2015

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Is Whole Foods Doubling Down on Fraud?

November 25, 2015

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Sarah's Thanksgiving

November 23, 2015

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Sarah's Thanksgiving

November 23, 2015

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My Resolution

November 17, 2015

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My Resolution

November 17, 2015

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Getting the Issue on the Table

November 6, 2015

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Getting the Issue on the Table

November 6, 2015

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Getting the Issue on the Table: Disrupting Bill Clinton

October 29, 2015

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Getting the Issue on the Table: Disrupting Bill Clinton

October 29, 2015

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Stigmatizing Eating Animals

October 21, 2015

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Stigmatizing Eating Animals

October 21, 2015

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The Note In My Dad's Wallet

October 18, 2015

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The Note In My Dad's Wallet

October 18, 2015

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Inside the Bold New Animal Liberation Movement: No Masks, No Regrets, All The Risks

November 7, 2017

Mother Jones

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Rescue at Oakland Slaughterhouse Shows New, Potent Tactics of Growing Animal Rights Movement

November 1, 2017

The Intercept

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The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms

October 5, 2017

The Intercept

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FBI raids animal shelters, searching for piglets rescued from factory farm, activists say

September 14, 2017

The Washington Post

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Animal Welfare Groups Have a New Tool: Virtual Reality

July 6, 2017

The New York Times

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‘Her head has been torn off’: Activists’ film alleges abuse at Costco-linked cage-free egg farm

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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Animal Rights Group’s Video of Hens Raises Questions, but Not Just for Farms

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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A River in New Zealand Has Just Been Granted Personhood! Is it Time to Extend the Same Courtesy to Animals?

March 17, 2017

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Animal Rights News Recap 3/17/2017

March 17, 2017

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Animal Rights Activist Profile: Kitty Jones

March 15, 2017

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Animal Rights News Recap 3/20/17

March 10, 2017

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Cal Student Animal Rescuers Are Speaking the Truth

March 9, 2017

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Animal Rights Activist Profile: Ateret Goldman

March 8, 2017

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Animal Abusers Are Running Scared, As They Should Be

March 6, 2017

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The Real Story Is Getting Out - Ateret Speaks About Flower Protest

March 3, 2017

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Animal Rights News Recap 3/3/2017

March 3, 2017

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Activists Protest at Elon Musk's Neuralink, Call for End to Animal Experiments

February 15, 2025

Protestors displayed a giant Elon Musk head with a speech bubble reading “I TORTURE MONKEYS.” With some activists dressed as monkeys inside cages, others held signs reading “Primates are not prototypes.” Several Bay Area residents, including a former animal experimenter, gave speeches condemning the cruelty and ineffectiveness of animal testing.

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Activists Disrupt Dinner Service at Playa Mill Valley Over Ties to Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry

February 2, 2025

On Saturday evening, animal rights activists disrupted the dinner service at the upscale restaurant Playa Mill Valley in Marin County, asking the restaurant to cut ties with Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry due to documented animal cruelty.

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Activists Protest at Home of Perdue Slaughterhouse Director

January 29, 2025

Jason Arnold, Director of Operations for Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse, ignored activists’ requests for a meeting regarding documented criminal animal cruelty at the slaughterhouse

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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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