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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.
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June 3, 2025
Wired Magazine
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February 9, 2023
West Orlando News
Orlando is just one of dozens of U.S. locations where DxE gas chamber protests are underway. The Orlando chapter has asked community members who care about the plight of animals suffering in the US food industry to help them mark the occasion and bring awareness to their cause by joining in future protests in the area.
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February 9, 2023
West Orlando News
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February 9, 2023
Toronto Star
Ontario’s largest pig slaughterhouse, which kills an estimated 10,000 animals a day, uses [CO2 gas]. But you aren’t likely to see any undercover footage from inside that facility. In 2020, Ontario passed “ag-gag” legislation, which bans anyone obtaining access to a farm or slaughterhouse “under false pretences.”
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February 9, 2023
Toronto Star
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February 9, 2023
San Francisco Chronicle
The message the pigs conveyed in the gas chamber footage is clear: They are in extreme pain, and they want to live. You don’t need the Agriculture Department to tell you that. You can see and hear it for yourself.
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February 9, 2023
San Francisco Chronicle
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February 7, 2023
Plant-Based News
The vast majority of people have no idea about the reality of how pigs are killed, with most countries using vague language about “humane” methods of slaughter.
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February 7, 2023
Plant-Based News
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February 7, 2023
Salt Lake Tribune
“Instead of taking action to end animal cruelty at these facilities, the legislature has made it incredibly clear that they care way more about protecting corporate profits and enabling animal abuse than they do about protecting the vulnerable and those who try to help them,” DxE lead organizer Almira Tanner said.
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February 7, 2023
Salt Lake Tribune
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February 6, 2023
California Aggie
“The CNPRC run by UC Davis imprisons over 5,000 monkeys for use in cruel and deadly experiments that do not benefit students,” [student and organizer Kara] Long said. “We are trying to raise awareness of their abuse and come up with alternative methods of scientific research that do not involve the use of nonhuman animals.”
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February 6, 2023
California Aggie
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February 2, 2023
New York Times
“It was horrible cruelty to the pigs inside the chambers,” Jim Reynolds told me. “It’s a violation of federal law.” Reynolds is one of 90 veterinarians who signed an open letter saying that the process shown in the videos probably violates federal law on humane slaughter.
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February 2, 2023
New York Times
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February 1, 2023
Utah legislators with ties to the Farm Bureau released House Bill 114, “Theft Defense Amendments,” in direct response to the outcome of the Smithfield Trial.
BLOG
February 1, 2023
Utah legislators with ties to the Farm Bureau released House Bill 114, “Theft Defense Amendments,” in direct response to the outcome of the Smithfield Trial.
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January 31, 2023
Salt Lake Tribune
Rather than admit their case was inadequate, prosecutors are now spitefully pointing the finger at the jury and trying to rewrite laws to make it easier for them in the future. HB 114 would rewrite Utah’s criminal theft statute to prohibit a defendant from introducing evidence to a jury that an allegedly removed animal was sick or dying.
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April 28, 2022
New York Magazine
Protests are often unpopular, but as this article shows, in the end, they tend to be right.
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April 14, 2022
The Intercept
DxE documented video footage of the depopulation at Rembrandt Enterprises, demonstrating the brutal reality of VSD and the true toll of our broken "food" system.
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March 22, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle
Compelling testimony by a former slaughterhouse worker who is now a member of DxE's core organizing team.
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March 14, 2022
Current Affairs
DxE activists are showing that anyone can, if they give themselves permission, start creating the world they want to live in.
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February 23, 2022
The New Republic
DxE investigators are pressing for a trial they hope will go down as a pivotal moment in the history of the animal rights movement.
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January 30, 2022
The Intercept
The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress, demonstrating yet again the massive power corporations wield in our current system.
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January 23, 2022
The Guardian
DxE's investigation of ventilation shutdown is probably the most important investigation in more than a decade, said Justin Marceau, an animal law scholar and professor at the University of Denver.
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December 8, 2021
Democracy Now!
In conversation with host Amy Goodman, DxE investigator Wayne Hsiung asks “Are the living creatures of this Earth property, or are they living creatures that deserve some form of dignity and respect?”
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December 6, 2021
The Guardian
This case is about smashing the myth of benevolent small-scale farms, which may talk of free-range and happy animals, but still ultimately treat animals as property and slaughter them for profit.
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September 15, 2025
Updates and summaries from Week 1 of the Perdue Rescue Trial.
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September 12, 2025
The Perdue Rescue Trial begins on Monday, September 15th at the Sonoma County Superior Court in Santa Rosa, California.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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February 14, 2021
The activists said they are drawing attention to Smithfield's heartless attitude
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January 28, 2021
Grundy County Attorney Cites Iowa Select Farms’ refusal to testify as cause for dismissal
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January 11, 2021
Group that hoaxed Fox News on live TV last month also behind today’s demonstration
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January 10, 2021
Grundy County Attorney Cites Iowa Select Farms’ refusal to testify as cause for dismissal
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December 22, 2020
Imposter cites animal agriculture’s role in creating and spreading pandemics, and harms to the environment and animals
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December 10, 2020
Activists with Direct Action Everywhere are calling for a statewide moratorium on factory farms and slaughterhouses, citing animal and worker abuse
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December 7, 2020
Citing mink-to-human transmission in Denmark, advocates say the public deserves transparency about the nature of the threat
