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The Street Team That Builds Compassion Through Pigeon First Aid

September 9, 2026

The Tenderloin Voice

In a sun-drenched patch of grass at Union Square, a flock of pigeons gathers around Carla Cabral. She is half-crouched and her gaze is fixed on a spot right in front of her toes. I only realize she’s made a move when the flock explodes into flight — she has darted out her arms, moving faster than I thought humanly possible, and when she straightens, she’s holding a bird. Her grip appears gentle, but secure.

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FAA Investigates Drone Pilot Who Films Animal Abusers

September 8, 2026

The Intercept

The FAA has launched an investigation of an animal rights activist whose group’s videos of conditions at California cattle ranches sparked outrage, with the agency simultaneously proposing new rules that could prevent the pilots’ flyovers altogether.

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VIDEO: Activists Protest Petco to Demand End of Live Animals Sales, Following Exposé of Cruelty at Parakeet Breeding Mill

September 5, 2026

Protesters entered the store with signs reading “Someone Not Something” and “Stop Selling Animals,” as well as trash cans overflowing with plush parakeets, rubber snakes, and rubber mice to represent how Petco treats animals like trash, based on images from multiple recent investigations of breeders that sell to Petco.

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Judge Reduces All Felonies to Misdemeanors in Goat Rescue Case

August 25, 2026

The ruling comes in response to a filing earlier this month detailing evidence of significant animal cruelty at the dairy. The judge also ordered that the District Attorney’s office disclose evidence of DA Sarah Hacker’s relationship with the owners of the dairy farm property involved in the prosecution against these animal rescuers.

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VIDEO: Activists Protest Whole Foods Goat Milk Supplier’s Cruelty with Giant “Bloody” Milk Carton and “Die-In”

August 22, 2026

The protest featured a 10-foot-tall milk carton prop modeled after Meyenberg packaging, but with an image of the dead pile of goats documented at Meyenberg’s Vera Goat Dairy and with red streamers symbolizing the animals’ blood flowing out from the top of the carton.

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Defense Submits Animal Cruelty Evidence in Goat Rescue Case

August 11, 2026

Today, defense attorneys for four goat rescuers charged in Kings County filed evidence with the court of animal cruelty at the Whole Foods-supplying goat dairy at the heart of the case. They have submitted a motion requesting that Judge Jim Trevino reduce the felony charges to misdemeanors.

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Inside the Meat Industry’s Push to Ban Drones Over Factory Farms

August 5, 2026

Vox

Most Americans will never set foot inside a factory farm or slaughterhouse. What little we know about these places has often come from investigators willing to document them. If that work becomes harder, it becomes harder to know where our food comes from.

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Animal Activists Rally Outside Amgen's Thousand Oaks Headquarters

August 4, 2026

Ventura County Star

Protesters called on Amgen to cut ties with Marshall BioResources, a commercial breeder of lab animals. A news release from Direct Action Everywhere, one of the groups behind the protest, said Marshall's North Rose, New York facility houses over 40,000 animals, including 16,000 dogs, in “a factory farm for research animals.”

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Activists Take to the Sky to Document Stanislaus County Dairy Conditions

July 29, 2026

Modesto Bee

“The amount of footage that we’re getting now really makes it hard to deny that this is actually the industry standard practice,” Bernier said, adding that drone technology has been a game changer. Still, they don’t fully fault the workers, who work long days and have to move quickly. It’s the industrialized farms themselves they’re after.