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Rosenberg was sentenced on Wednesday and ordered to report to
the Sonoma County Jail on Dec. 10. She will serve the 90 days,
but 60 of those may involve jail alternates, such as house
arrest, the county's district attorney's office said. Rosenberg
will also have two years of probation, and she is ordered to
stay away from all Perdue facilities in the county.
The activist with Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, a
Berkeley-based animal rights group, has said she does not regret
what she did.
“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 said that DxE is an extremist group that is
intent on destroying the animal agriculture industry. The
company maintains that the animals were not mistreated and said
Wednesday's sentencing upholds the rule of law.
“We’re grateful that DxE has been held to account for its
unlawful campaign –- training and paying staff to carry out
dangerous, unauthorized intrusions onto private property," Herb
Frerichs, general counsel for Petaluma Poultry, said in a
statement Thursday. “DxE’s actions show a reckless disregard for
employee safety, animal welfare, and food security.”
Rosenberg testified that she disguised herself as a Petaluma
Poultry worker using a fake badge and earpiece to take the
birds, and then posted a video of her actions on social media.
Petaluma Poultry is a subsidiary of Perdue Farms — one of the
United States’ largest poultry providers for major grocery
chains.
The co-founder of DxE was convicted two years ago for his role
in factory farm protests in Petaluma.
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