A California animal rights advocate, who removed four chickens from a prominent Perdue Farms fowl facility, received a 90-day prison sentence after being convicted for felony conspiracy, unlawful entry, and additional counts.
TL;DR
- Zoe Rosenberg, 23, sentenced to 90 days for felony conspiracy, unlawful entry after removing chickens from Perdue Farms.
- She claimed to save fowl from inhumane conditions, admitting to assuming employee identity to remove them.
- Rosenberg must avoid Perdue facilities and faces two years of supervised release after her sentence.
- Direct Action Everywhere, her group, stated she has no regrets for rescuing the birds.
Zoe Rosenberg, aged 23, admitted to removing the animals from Petaluma Poultry but contended that her actions were lawful, as she was saving the fowl from inhumane conditions. A jury convicted her in October following a seven-week legal proceeding in Sonoma County, a farming region in Northern California.
On Wednesday, Rosenberg received her sentence and was instructed to present herself at the Sonoma County Jail by December 10th. She is slated to complete the 90-day term, with up to 60 days potentially served through alternative means like home confinement, according to the county’s district attorney’s office. Additionally, Rosenberg will be subject to two years of supervised release and is mandated to avoid all Perdue facilities within the county.
The advocate associated with Direct Action Everywhere, also known as DxE, a collective in Berkeley focused on animal welfare, has stated she has no regrets regarding her actions.
“I will not apologize for taking sick, neglected animals to get medical care,” Rosenberg said following her conviction.
The group named the birds — Poppy, Ivy, Aster, and Azalea — and placed them in an animal sanctuary.
Petaluma Poultry has characterized DxE as an extremist organization determined to dismantle the animal agriculture sector. The firm asserted that the animals did not suffer mistreatment.
Rosenberg stated under oath that she assumed the identity of a Petaluma Poultry employee, complete with a counterfeit identification and an earpiece, in order to remove the birds. She subsequently shared a video documenting her actions on social media platforms.
Perdue Farms, a leading U.S. Poultry supplier to prominent supermarket chains, operates Petaluma Poultry as one of its divisions.
Two years prior, the co-founder of DxE received a conviction for his involvement in factory farm demonstrations held in Petaluma.
