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PRESS
June 3, 2025
Wired Magazine
Hundreds of emails and internal documents reviewed by WIRED reveal top lobbyists and representatives of America’s agricultural industry led a persistent and often covert campaign to surveil, discredit, and suppress animal rights organizations for nearly a decade, while relying on corporate spies to infiltrate meetings and functionally serve as an informant for the FBI.
PRESS
June 3, 2025
Wired Magazine
PRESS
July 9, 2025
ABC7 Bay Area
"This is an attack on California that could hurt everyone in the country, including millions and millions of animals who are living in these facilities and already have so few protections," King said.
PRESS
July 9, 2025
ABC7 Bay Area
PRESS
July 9, 2025
SF Gate
“It is absurd that I’m being charged with felony vandalism,” Kandada said in the DxE’s July 3 news release. “The refrigerator is perfectly fine, my hand is fine, but the chickens are not fine.”
PRESS
July 9, 2025
SF Gate
BLOG
July 9, 2025
Judge Gnoss’s ruling is simply another disturbing reminder that our legal system values money over living, breathing beings with personalities, thoughts and feelings.
BLOG
July 6, 2025
From daring rescues and major investigations to powerful protests, media coverage, and critical courtroom battles, we’ve been pushing the fight for animal liberation forward. Here’s a look at what we made happen this past quarter.
PRESS
July 5, 2025
Pasadena Now
The protest was part of a broader DxE campaign targeting Trader Joe’s ties to Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry, which the group accuses of operating factory farms with systemic abuse... Kandada called the felony charge “absurd,” adding, “The refrigerator is perfectly fine, my hand is fine, but the chickens are not.”
PRESS
July 5, 2025
Pasadena Now
PRESS RELEASE
July 3, 2025
Ani Kandada superglued down inside Trader Joe's original store in Pasadena asking the retailer to stop selling chickens from Perdue's Petaluma Poultry, just hours after another animal rights activist was arrested for supergluing her hand inside Trader Joe's Headquarters in Monrovia, CA
PRESS RELEASE
July 3, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
July 3, 2025
Carla Cabral remained superglued to the desk from approximately 10AM to approximately 11AM, while she demanded a meeting with company executives about documented animal cruelty at Trader Joe's chicken supplier, Petaluma Poultry, which is a subsidiary of national agribusiness giant Perdue Foods.
PRESS RELEASE
July 3, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
June 10, 2025
Animal rights activists with DxE disrupted multiple events at the Summer Board Meeting of the California Poultry Federation, a trade association representing commercial chicken and turkey producers across the state. Among CPF's twenty board members are three executives from Petaluma Poultry, the California subsidiary of national poultry giant Perdue Foods, where DxE investigators have documented widespread violations of animal cruelty laws since 2018.
PRESS RELEASE
June 10, 2025
PRESS
June 8, 2025
Davis Vanguard
Judge Gnoss’s ruling marks a significant moment in the case, reaffirming the role of free speech in legal proceedings involving public interest issues. As the trial approaches, Rosenberg’s prosecution continues to serve as a flashpoint for debates about animal rights, food safety, and the criminalization of activism.
PRESS
June 8, 2025
Davis Vanguard
TOP PRESS
June 6, 2019
Democracy Now!
TOP PRESS
December 23, 2018
The Intercept
TOP PRESS
September 29, 2018
Forbes
TOP PRESS
June 7, 2018
The Intercept
TOP PRESS
May 30, 2018
Democracy Now!
TOP PRESS
May 25, 2018
The Washington Post
TOP PRESS
May 17, 2018
The Intercept
TOP PRESS
May 8, 2018
Vox
TOP PRESS
May 4, 2018
The Intercept
BLOG
January 25, 2021
BLOG
January 19, 2021
We’ve been hovering around this 150 number for a while now in the SF Bay Area chapter, and we know we have to grow past this, so we set off to figure out how to break Dunbar’s number.
BLOG
September 11, 2020
BLOG
August 27, 2020
BLOG
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.
BLOG
June 29, 2020
Workers forced to kill thousands of pigs with extreme heat and steam
BLOG
June 11, 2020
Investigators say “ventilation shutdown” is criminal livestock neglect as pigs are “roasted alive”
PRESS RELEASE
January 28, 2021
Grundy County Attorney Cites Iowa Select Farms’ refusal to testify as cause for dismissal
PRESS RELEASE
January 11, 2021
Group that hoaxed Fox News on live TV last month also behind today’s demonstration
PRESS RELEASE
January 10, 2021
Grundy County Attorney Cites Iowa Select Farms’ refusal to testify as cause for dismissal
PRESS RELEASE
December 22, 2020
Imposter cites animal agriculture’s role in creating and spreading pandemics, and harms to the environment and animals
PRESS RELEASE
December 10, 2020
Activists with Direct Action Everywhere are calling for a statewide moratorium on factory farms and slaughterhouses, citing animal and worker abuse
PRESS RELEASE
December 7, 2020
Citing mink-to-human transmission in Denmark, advocates say the public deserves transparency about the nature of the threat
PRESS RELEASE
November 22, 2020
While Smithfield demands prison for Utah activists, this turkey farmer is helping them rescue more animals
PRESS RELEASE
November 17, 2020
Simultaneous protests at slaughterhouses and factory farms throughout CA demand moratorium prohibiting new factory farm and slaughterhouse construction
PRESS RELEASE
October 1, 2020
Arrestees include photographers and videographers, as well as activists who chained themselves to the building
