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TOP PRESS
October 24, 2025
The Guardian
I asked Rosenberg what outcome she was hoping for. “My ideal outcome is honestly just whatever is best for the animals,” she said. “An acquittal wouldn’t set an actual legal precedent, but it would set a social precedent, to some extent, and send an important message.”
TOP PRESS
October 24, 2025
The Guardian
PRESS
October 30, 2025
Los Angeles Times
“These charges carry a potential sentence of nearly 5 years in jail,” DxE said in a statement. “Meanwhile, Petaluma Poultry faces no consequences for leaving sick animals to die or scalding animals alive.”
PRESS
October 30, 2025
Los Angeles Times
TOP PRESS
October 29, 2025
The New York Times
The four chickens she took with her — whom she named Poppy, Ivy, Aster and Azalea — are alive at a sanctuary for rescued farm animals, she said. “I will not apologize for taking sick, neglected animals to get medical care,” Ms. Rosenberg said in a statement. “When we see cruelty and violence, we can choose to ignore it or to intervene and try to make the world a better place.”
TOP PRESS
October 29, 2025
The New York Times
PRESS
October 29, 2025
The Guardian
“Sonoma county spent over six weeks and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to protect a multibillion-dollar corporation from the rescue of four chickens worth less than $25,” Chris Carraway, Rosenberg’s attorney, said in a statement.
PRESS
October 29, 2025
The Guardian
PRESS
October 29, 2025
KQED
When asked on the stand last week if she wants open rescue “to be something that happens everywhere,” Rosenberg told prosecutors: “Yes.” Rosenberg’s defense team is expected to appeal, creating the opportunity to set a legal precedent for the practice.
PRESS
October 29, 2025
KQED
TOP PRESS
October 29, 2025
San Francisco Chronicle
But even if the appellate court doesn’t reverse Rosenberg’s conviction, she likely won’t regret having risked prison time to force a trial. Her trial, by some measures, was still a success. Several national publications — including The New York Times and the Associated Press — covered it, raising awareness of DxE’s goal to eradicate America’s factory-farming industry by 2040.
TOP PRESS
October 29, 2025
San Francisco Chronicle
PRESS
October 29, 2025
The Press Democrat
“Even if the verdict was good, it would still be disappointing, because still no one is lifting a single finger to look at the allegations of criminal animal cruelty at Petaluma Poultry,” Carraway said. “Unfortunately, at the end of the day, there was more concern about talking about protests Zoe did when she was 14 years old than actually the much worse crimes that are happening day in, day out at Petaluma Poultry.”
PRESS
October 29, 2025
The Press Democrat
TOP PRESS
October 28, 2025
The Associated Press
A California animal rights activist on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’ major poultry plants said Tuesday that she was rescuing Poppy, Ivy, Aster, and Azalea from abuse while prosecutors say she broke the law.
TOP PRESS
October 28, 2025
The Associated Press
PRESS
October 28, 2025
San Francisco Chronicle
During his closing argument in a Sonoma County trial that could reverberate throughout America’s animal rights movement, Deputy District Attorney Matt Hobson seized several opportunities to stress something that should have seemed obvious: The defendant — not animal agriculture — is on trial here. His need to reiterate that point Tuesday spoke to the unique nature of this case.
PRESS
October 28, 2025
San Francisco Chronicle
PRESS
October 28, 2025
The Press Democrat
Hobson also questioned why Rosenberg took only four chickens if her goal was to save animals. Carraway countered that rescuing even a few birds could still raise awareness about animal cruelty.
PRESS
October 28, 2025
The Press Democrat
TOP PRESS
June 13, 2023
The Intercept
In conjunction with the release of an undercover investigation on the factory farm, the group DxE mounted an “open rescue” of birds from a slaughterhouse.
TOP PRESS
March 30, 2023
Salt Lake Tribune
If government agencies were taking these [investigative] reports seriously and protecting animals from cruelty, there would be no need for bills like this. But certain Utah legislators have decided that the real problem with sick, suffering animals is the potential for negative publicity for the industry and so it is the industry, not the animals, that need protection.
TOP PRESS
March 21, 2023
Vox
DxE’s theory — that when you show a jury of ordinary citizens what happens to animals in the meat industry, they’ll agree that they deserve rescue — turned out to be true, challenging the idea that the animal rights agenda is radical or unpopular.
TOP PRESS
March 20, 2023
LA Times
“This is a victory for [the chickens] Ethan, Jax, and all other living beings subjected to abuse by corporations like Foster Farms,” Santurio said in a news release from Direct Action Everywhere. “I have so much love for the chickens in my family and I want all animals to experience that safety and respect.”
TOP PRESS
March 9, 2023
LA Times
“We published this video within an hour with both my name and Alicia Santurio’s name attached to it because we believe what we’re doing is legal and morally right,” Paul said in an interview with The Times.
TOP PRESS
February 14, 2023
New York Times
In any context other than factory farming, treating animals the way we see chickens treated in the Foster Farms slaughterhouse videos would be considered blatant cruelty. Many would also consider it cruel to stand by while someone else handled animals this way. “If there’s someone in my neighborhood watching me boil birds alive, we’d say this is monstrous behavior,” Wayne Hsiung, a founder of DxE, told me.
TOP PRESS
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.
TOP PRESS
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.
TOP PRESS
January 18, 2023
Wired
Animal rights activists have captured the first hidden-camera video from inside a carbon dioxide “stunning chamber” in a US meatpacking plant.
BLOG
June 11, 2020
Investigators say “ventilation shutdown” is criminal livestock neglect as pigs are “roasted alive”
BLOG
June 9, 2020
Bay Area residents face criminal charges after rescuing dying animals from Sonoma County factory farms
BLOG
May 12, 2020
An Unfiltered Q&A With A Publication That’s Planning An “Exposé” Of DxE
BLOG
May 8, 2020
How money and drugs corrupted the story of a pig farmer who was prosecuted for saving his pigs.
BLOG
April 18, 2020
Protesters of Smithfield slaughterhouses and vendors say it undermines the well-being of employees, animals, whistleblowers and the public
BLOG
March 29, 2020
BLOG
March 24, 2020
BLOG
March 24, 2020
PRESS RELEASE
December 22, 2020
Imposter cites animal agriculture’s role in creating and spreading pandemics, and harms to the environment and animals
PRESS RELEASE
December 10, 2020
Activists with Direct Action Everywhere are calling for a statewide moratorium on factory farms and slaughterhouses, citing animal and worker abuse
PRESS RELEASE
December 7, 2020
Citing mink-to-human transmission in Denmark, advocates say the public deserves transparency about the nature of the threat
PRESS RELEASE
November 22, 2020
While Smithfield demands prison for Utah activists, this turkey farmer is helping them rescue more animals
PRESS RELEASE
November 17, 2020
Simultaneous protests at slaughterhouses and factory farms throughout CA demand moratorium prohibiting new factory farm and slaughterhouse construction
PRESS RELEASE
October 1, 2020
Arrestees include photographers and videographers, as well as activists who chained themselves to the building
PRESS RELEASE
August 25, 2020
PRESS RELEASE
August 7, 2020
Smithfield faces nuisance lawsuit judgements totaling hundreds of millions for waste pollution sprayed disproportionately on communities of color
PRESS RELEASE
July 14, 2020
Rotting pig carcasses are seen being fed on by wild animals after workers cut infected flesh out of carcasses before selling them for human consumption
