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Radical Vegans Are Trying to Change Your Diet

September 20, 2023

The Atlantic

Everything, everywhere in this farm for “free-range” chickens was covered in excrement. The industrial hangar was so enormous, filled with so many clone-birds, that I felt like I was staring into an infinity mirror.

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Radical Vegans Are Trying to Change Your Diet

September 20, 2023

The Atlantic

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Gag Order on DxE Activists Upheld Despite Calls to Vacate from Berkeley Law Dean, ACLU

September 19, 2023

Daily Californian

"I hope that I’ll be able to testify to the sickness of the ducklings and the hens who are rescued,” [witness Zoe] Rosenberg said. “I think that’s essential information for the jury to hear, and I hope the judge allows that information to be heard.”

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Gag Order on DxE Activists Upheld Despite Calls to Vacate from Berkeley Law Dean, ACLU

September 19, 2023

Daily Californian

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Awaited Trial of Bay Area Animal Rights Activists Begins

September 11, 2023

Northern California Public Media

An absolved King addressed the court, saying “I don’t believe I’ve done anything wrong by trying to help suffering animals."

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Awaited Trial of Bay Area Animal Rights Activists Begins

September 11, 2023

Northern California Public Media

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Animal Rights Protesters Go on Trial in Sonoma County

September 8, 2023

CBS Bay Area

A trial about the right to rescue began Friday in the North Bay where animal-rights activists are being prosecuted after taking several ducks and chickens from a farm in Petaluma. Anne Makovec reports.

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Animal Rights Protesters Go on Trial in Sonoma County

September 8, 2023

CBS Bay Area

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Animal Welfare Group Rallies Outside Sonoma County Courthouse as Criminal Case Against Activists Advances

September 8, 2023

Press Democrat

King said the rally represented the “continued momentum and urgency” to respond to animal cruelty. “People aren’t giving up.”

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Animal Welfare Group Rallies Outside Sonoma County Courthouse as Criminal Case Against Activists Advances

September 8, 2023

Press Democrat

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The Latest Open Rescue Trial Is Now Underway. Here’s the Latest.

September 8, 2023

Sentient Media

Do people have a right to rescue animals from suffering? And, more than that, should animals have the right to live a life free of suffering? These questions could be answered by a Sonoma County trial now underway in Northern California.

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The Latest Open Rescue Trial Is Now Underway. Here’s the Latest.

September 8, 2023

Sentient Media

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Activists Submit Required Signatures to Put Factory Farm Ban on Ballot

September 5, 2023

Activists say voter enthusiasm is high for a ban on factory farms in Berkeley after submitting more than 4,900 signatures to the Berkeley city clerk today, a large overshoot beyond the 3,000 required to get the measure on the ballot.

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Activists Submit Required Signatures to Put Factory Farm Ban on Ballot

September 5, 2023

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Why I’m Proud to Stand Trial Defending the Right to Rescue Animals

August 30, 2023

Waging Nonviolence

There is nothing right about a legal system that protects those hurting animals and punishes those trying to save them.

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Why I’m Proud to Stand Trial Defending the Right to Rescue Animals

August 30, 2023

Waging Nonviolence

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This Disabled Duck is at the Center of a Felony Case. His Name is Bruce.

August 30, 2023

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This Disabled Duck is at the Center of a Felony Case. His Name is Bruce.

August 30, 2023

If you saw a little duckling on his back, paddling his legs and struggling to get back up, what would you do? Would you keep walking? Or would you help him? 

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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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Three Reasons Why I Rescued a Dying Hen

March 2, 2017

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Animal Rights Activist Profile: Stephanie Caruthers

March 1, 2017

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How My Friendship With a Fish Changed My Life: A Story of Love, Speciesism, and Vendetta

February 28, 2017

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What I Learned from the Hen Who Survived

February 27, 2017

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Animal Rights News Recap 2/24/2017

February 24, 2017

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Are Protests Against Violence in the Bay Area Becoming the Norm?

February 23, 2017

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Animal Rights Activist Profilie: Olivia Mihalcik-Duvall

February 22, 2017

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Best Vegan Resources 2017

February 21, 2017

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February 21, 2017

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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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