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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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May 13, 2022
The Daily Californian
During an NBA game between the Timberwolves and Grizzlies on national television, I chained myself to the base of the hoop to get the world’s attention.
BLOG
May 5, 2022
This is a response to a recent study by Faunalytics regarding the impacts of protest on diet change.
PRESS
May 5, 2022
Vox
The protests, coordinated by the animal rights group DxE, were aimed at the Timberwolves’ owner Glen Taylor, who also owns Rembrandt Enterprises that killed 5.3 million hens.
PRESS
May 5, 2022
Vox
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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.
PRESS RELEASE
April 26, 2022
Bill for moratorium against new factory farms was killed by first Assembly committee set to consider it
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April 26, 2022
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April 26, 2022
ESPN
"To have Taylor and other extremely powerful factory farming businessmen getting these taxpayer bailouts flies in the face of the values of ordinary Americans" said Matt Johnson.
PRESS
April 26, 2022
ESPN
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April 25, 2022
People
Zemmel was wearing a jersey with the number 5.3 on the back, in reference to the 5.3 million chickens killed at Rembrandt Enterprises.
PRESS
April 25, 2022
People
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April 22, 2022
Third disruption by animal rights activists this month follows exposé of chickens being “roasted alive” at team owner Glen Taylor’s factory farm
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April 22, 2022
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April 16, 2022
New York Post
The woman, wearing a T-shirt that read: “Glen Taylor Roasts Animals Alive” — appeared during a stoppage of play in the second quarter with yellow chains and attempted to secure herself to the stanchion after throwing flyers on the floor.
PRESS
April 16, 2022
New York Post
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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.
TOP PRESS
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
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March 24, 2021
Activists are calling for Newsom to enact a statewide moratorium on factory farms and slaughterhouses
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March 5, 2021
Following exposé with workers cutting the throats of fully-conscious cows, demonstrators demand moratorium banning new factory farms and slaughterhouses
