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Animal Rights Group Protests at Santa Rosa Home of Perdue Poultry Exec

March 23, 2025

Press Democrat

A group of protesters from Direct Action Everywhere, a grassroots animal rights organization, over the weekend protested at the Santa Rosa home of Jason Arnold, the director of operations at Perdue Poultry’s Petaluma facility.

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Animal Rights Group Protests at Santa Rosa Home of Perdue Poultry Exec

March 23, 2025

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Dozens Protest at Home of Perdue Slaughterhouse Director

March 22, 2025

A handful of counter-protesters showed up with a Trump flag and a cardboard sign reading “Eat chicken.” They heckled the speakers and disrupted photos by standing in front of the photographers.

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Dozens Protest at Home of Perdue Slaughterhouse Director

March 22, 2025

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Week-long Protest at Perdue Coming to an End

March 21, 2025

ABC 47 WMDT

DXE is protesting practices they say are taking place at Petaluma Poultry in California, Perdue’s subsidiary. So they traveled over 3,000 miles to the Corporate Office here in Maryland, says Zirbel. “We’ve had mostly positive reactions from the community driving by. A lot of them have seen and gotten our message. A lot of them agreeing I’ve spoken to a couple people now.”

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Week-long Protest at Perdue Coming to an End

March 21, 2025

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Activists Protest at Trader Joe's Headquarters Over Animal Cruelty

March 20, 2025

“I’m appalled that Trader Joe’s would continue to knowingly sell abused animals,” said Sally Zito of Los Angeles, who joined today’s protest in Monrovia. “I have delivered letters and I’ve called corporate headquarters and asked to talk to Trader Joe’s buyers, and they denied this request. They are putting their profits over the lives of animals.”

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Activists Protest at Trader Joe's Headquarters Over Animal Cruelty

March 20, 2025

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Blind Beagle 'Rescued' from Puppy Mill Thrives 8 Years Later

March 18, 2025

Fox 6 Milwaukee

When Wayne Hsiung and two of his colleagues from Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) entered Ridglan Farms in the middle of the night in 2017, their mission was to document everything in pictures and video. But that's not all. They removed three beagle puppies from stacked metal cages and - as alarms blared throughout the building - they rushed them into the darkness and fled.

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Blind Beagle 'Rescued' from Puppy Mill Thrives 8 Years Later

March 18, 2025

Fox 6 Milwaukee

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Dogs of Science; Wisconsin Puppy Mill Could Face Criminal Charges

March 18, 2025

Fox 6 Milwaukee

A factory farm west of Madison that breeds beagle puppies for use in scientific experiments is facing both criminal and disciplinary investigations for mistreatment of animals. Ridglan Farms houses more than 3,200 dogs whose only purpose is to be used in - or sold for - scientific experiments.

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Dogs of Science; Wisconsin Puppy Mill Could Face Criminal Charges

March 18, 2025

Fox 6 Milwaukee

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Protesters Decry Poultry Producer at Petaluma Trader Joe’s Store

March 16, 2025

Press Democrat

A group of 15 protesters staged demonstrations inside and outside of a Petaluma grocery store Saturday to decry what they say is animal cruelty at chicken farms operated by Petaluma Poultry.

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Protesters Decry Poultry Producer at Petaluma Trader Joe’s Store

March 16, 2025

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Activists Disrupt Petaluma Trader Joe's Over Sale of Chickens from Perdue Farms

March 15, 2025

The protest spotlighted the zoonotic pathogens found at Petaluma Poultry, including salmonella, campylobacter, antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus, and Clostridium perfringens. Two protestors wore the type of biosecurity suits that are required for investigations and held yellow caution tape in front of the store’s meat section, which contains chickens slaughtered at Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse

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Activists Disrupt Petaluma Trader Joe's Over Sale of Chickens from Perdue Farms

March 15, 2025

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Animal Rights Activists Protest at Home of Perdue Farms’ Director of Operations, After a Court Hearing for Fellow Activist

March 12, 2025

Sonoma State Star

Following Rosenberg’s March 3 hearing regarding her remaining charges, activists from Direct Action Everywhere gathered on the sidewalk outside the home of Jason Arnold, Perdue Farms’ director of operations, to protest his role in the factory farm industry.

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Animal Rights Activists Protest at Home of Perdue Farms’ Director of Operations, After a Court Hearing for Fellow Activist

March 12, 2025

Sonoma State Star

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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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October 7, 2013

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October 3, 2013

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Following UC Berkeley Dining Facility Lockdown, Students Secure Meeting with Chancellor

April 9, 2021

Citing animal cruelty exposés, activists demand the university stop supplying from factory farms

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Land O’ Lakes Dairy Exposé Reveals Freezing Calves, Widespread Violations of Company Policy and the Law

April 5, 2021

Workers seen dragging newborn calves by their ears

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24-Hour Demonstration Underway at Gavin Newsom’s House, Featuring Giant Newsom Head

March 24, 2021

Activists are calling for Newsom to enact a statewide moratorium on factory farms and slaughterhouses

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Activists in Coalinga with 50-foot Banner and Giant Gavin Newsom Head Protest Harris Ranch

March 5, 2021

Following exposé with workers cutting the throats of fully-conscious cows, demonstrators demand moratorium banning new factory farms and slaughterhouses

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BREAKING: Chained Activists Occupy California Horse Racing Track, Stopping Thursday’s Races

March 3, 2021

4 Bay Area residents locked down at Berkeley’s Golden Gate Fields horse racing facility, using heavily-weighted PVC pipes in a direct action maneuver called a “sleeping dragon.”

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Fully Conscious Cows’ Throats Slit in First-Ever Footage Inside Costco-Supplying Slaughterhouse

March 2, 2021

Graphic hidden-camera footage DxE investigators obtained inside Harris Beef in Selma, CA reveals cows systematically restrained and killed with a slice to the throat while fully conscious.

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Activists Delivered 7,000 Paper Hearts to Farmer John Slaughterhouse for the 7,000 Pigs Killed Each Day

February 14, 2021

The activists said they are drawing attention to Smithfield's heartless attitude

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Case Dismissed Against Iowa Man Who Exposed Cruel Mass Pig Killing at Major Pork Supplier

January 28, 2021

Grundy County Attorney Cites Iowa Select Farms’ refusal to testify as cause for dismissal

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Gavin Newsom Impersonator Satirically Chastises Animal Activists at CA Capitol Rally

January 11, 2021

Group that hoaxed Fox News on live TV last month also behind today’s demonstration

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