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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
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June 26, 2023
Plant-Based News
Animals, of any size or species, are not objects. You cannot put a price tag on their lives. They are individuals who feel fear, sadness, joy, and other emotions just like we do, and they deserve respect.
PRESS
June 26, 2023
Plant-Based News
PRESS
June 24, 2023
Press Democrat
"Not much has changed over the two administrations of Sonoma County district attorneys. They are continuing to retain charges against activists who originally exposed Petaluma Poultry for its animal cruelty."
PRESS
June 20, 2023
La Presse
Translation: Suspended sentences and conditional discharges for the 11 vegan activists
PRESS
June 20, 2023
La Presse
PRESS
June 20, 2023
Daily Californian
A petition, led by the animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere, to shut down the horse track has gained more than 39,000 signatures. “[The horses] are... forced to run until they are, one way or another, led to die,” said campus alumna Cassie King, organizer with Direct Action Everywhere.
PRESS
June 20, 2023
Daily Californian
PRESS
June 14, 2023
NorCal Public Media
"As somebody who has a disability myself," Rosenberg said. "I can't imagine what it's like to be an animal who's sick and disabled on the floor of one of these factory farms fighting for food and water, and so I wanna get those animals out and get them the care that they deserve."
PRESS
June 13, 2023
Press Democrat
Representatives of Direct Action Everywhere, which claimed responsibility for the actions on social media Tuesday, made off with 18 chickens. Their actions, the latest in a series of similar events, are being investigated.
PRESS
June 13, 2023
Press Democrat
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June 13, 2023
KTVU Fox Bay Area
The group said there have been documented instances of "birds collapsed on the floor or stuck on their backs and unable to walk to food or water, left to slowly starve to death; birds with splayed legs; birds with open wounds."
PRESS
June 13, 2023
KTVU Fox Bay Area
PRESS RELEASE
June 13, 2023
Hundreds are gathered outside the slaughterhouse calling on the Sonoma County District Attorney to prosecute Petaluma Poultry for documented criminal animal cruelty and infectious diseases that are endangering public health
PRESS RELEASE
June 13, 2023
PRESS
June 10, 2023
SF Gate
The activists said the live mice are typically sold to be fed to predators, while betta fish come from breeding factories.
PRESS
June 10, 2023
SF Gate
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March 20, 2018
The New York Times
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November 7, 2017
Mother Jones
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November 1, 2017
The Intercept
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October 5, 2017
The Intercept
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September 14, 2017
The Washington Post
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July 6, 2017
The New York Times
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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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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.
BLOG
September 15, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 1 of the Perdue Rescue Trial.
BLOG
September 12, 2025
The Perdue Rescue Trial begins on Monday, September 15th at the Sonoma County Superior Court in Santa Rosa, California.
BLOG
July 31, 2025
Trader Joe’s is known as “America’s most reputable brand,” and I’m learning firsthand that this might be because they relentlessly silence their critics and go to great lengths to protect their image from public scrutiny.
BLOG
July 25, 2025
Vera supplies the nation’s largest goat milk producer, Meyenberg, and its practices are a far cry from the rigorous standards Whole Foods promises. Thousands of goats are confined in crowded pens without access to pasture; newborn babies are routinely separated from their mothers; and, outside the confinement area, lies a mass graveyard of animals who died prior to slaughter.
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.
BLOG
April 17, 2025
The resistance of 2025 might not look like the resistance of 2017. That’s okay. In fact, sociologist Doug McAdam has demonstrated that tactical innovation was critical for the continued success of the civil rights movement. As organizers introduced new tactics, movement activity (‘insurgency’) rose dramatically.
BLOG
April 5, 2025
Perdue's legal complaint is riddled with false accusations meant to malign nonviolent activists and keep the attention off its abuse of animals.
BLOG
March 6, 2025
We have already begun to develop a large, trained, and coordinated network of chapters across the state, and to create a factory farm map and resource guide that will become the go-to source for information about industrialized animal agriculture in California.
PRESS RELEASE
June 26, 2021
Chanting activists entered the store holding placards while others rallied outside
PRESS RELEASE
June 14, 2021
Berkeley residents say Mayor Arreguín broke his commitment to support their divestment proposal
PRESS RELEASE
May 28, 2021
3-day occupation at Governor Newsom’s home culminated with march to State Capitol building for “No More Factory Farms” rally
PRESS RELEASE
May 14, 2021
Group currently being sued by billionaire track owners calls for end to horse racing, citing animal cruelty
PRESS RELEASE
May 9, 2021
University administrators falsely claim agribusiness giant isn’t engaged in factory farming, according to students
PRESS RELEASE
April 9, 2021
Citing animal cruelty exposés, activists demand the university stop supplying from factory farms
PRESS RELEASE
April 5, 2021
Workers seen dragging newborn calves by their ears
PRESS RELEASE
March 24, 2021
Activists are calling for Newsom to enact a statewide moratorium on factory farms and slaughterhouses
PRESS RELEASE
March 5, 2021
Following exposé with workers cutting the throats of fully-conscious cows, demonstrators demand moratorium banning new factory farms and slaughterhouses
