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A California Town Will Vote on Banning Factory Farms. What Does That Mean for the Rest of the US?

January 30, 2024

The Guardian

If successful in Berkeley, a liberal San Francisco Bay Area town that’s often been at the forefront of US environmental policy, the method can be replicated elsewhere, [activists] say. “We can pave the path to abolishing factory farming,” said Cassie King, an organizer with Direct Action Everywhere, one of the groups that pushed for the measure.

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An Emerging Food Fight in California

January 29, 2024

Politico

Direct Action Everywhere and other organizations hoped for statewide action with a bill in 2022 but it never got out of committee. Their argument, then as now in Sonoma County, is that concentrated animal feeding operations are inhumane, bad for the environment and a potential threat to public health.

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Activists Evoke “Chicken Run” in Retelling of Real-Life Rescues

January 27, 2024

Playing with characters and plot elements from the new film Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget, the protest featured “Zoe Rosenbird” coming to the rescue of sick, injured chickens and transforming the operation that tortured them into an animal sanctuary.

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Animal Activist & Attorney Wayne Hsiung Appeals Conviction for Rescuing Sick Animals from Factory Farms

January 19, 2024

World Animal News

“Substantial prejudicial and reversible error occurred in Hsiung’s trial,” said Animal Activist Legal Defense Project Staff Attorney Chris Carraway, who will represent Hsiung on appeal. “Stunningly, Judge Passaglia prohibited the jury from knowing the full scope of animal cruelty at these companies, as well as the activists’ extensive efforts to obtain law enforcement of animal cruelty laws. Thus, Hsiung was unable to explain the intent behind his actions–a crucial element of the alleged crimes."

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Wayne Hsiung Appeals His Conviction for Open Rescues at Animal Factories

January 18, 2024

Unchained TV

If his appeal is successful, Hsiung’s ordeal could ultimately establish case law for the right to rescue factory farmed animals who are injured, neglected and suffering.

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UC Berkeley Student Faces Felony, Misdemeanor Counts for Animal Rescue

January 16, 2024

Daily Californian

“I will never regret saving an animal's life and getting them medical care,” Rosenberg said. “Obviously, the charges are scary in a lot of ways, but I think my freedom is a small price to pay in the grand scheme of things and it's been so worth it to be able to see these animals experience freedom for the first time.”

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What Costco Doesn't Want Customers to Know

January 14, 2024

Daily Meal

Unfortunately, the near complete removal of battery cages from Costco's supply chain does not mean hens are reared in humane conditions. Videos recorded by a network of animal rights activists, Direct Action Everywhere, at a chicken farm that supplied eggs for Costco's Kirkland brand showed appalling conditions. The barn the animals were kept in was filthy, and dead and rotting birds littered the floor. Many living chickens also bore injuries associated with the increased aggression the animals display in cage-free systems.

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Proposed Sonoma County Ballot Initiative Aims to Eliminate "Factory Farms"

January 12, 2024

Press Democrat

“When we talk to voters, they are shocked to hear that there are farms confining hundreds of thousands of animals, many in terrible condition, right in their own county,” [spokesperson Samantha] Faye said in an email. “Small family farms cannot compete with these industrial farms because factory farms externalize their costs onto animals, society, and the environment."

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From Big Law to Jail, Animal Rights Activist Seeks to Break New Legal Ground

January 4, 2024

Reuters

Wayne Hsiung, who earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, is in the vanguard of a legal movement that seeks to establish “animal personhood,” affording non-human creatures greater legal standing in the eyes of the law.