( [link removed] )

( [link removed] )

Hi John,

I’m currently on my way to Sonoma County to be arrested, but this time, instead of being held in jail, they’re going to send me straight home to start house arrest. The remainder of my 90-day jail sentence for rescuing four suffering chickens will be completed through isolated home detention.

I was released from jail early on December 24th after spending 14 days in solitary confinement. These days passed slowly. Some days, I was only allowed out of my cell for 45 minutes and most days I didn’t get even a breath of fresh air. As I paced my small cell, I thought constantly of animals on factory farms who are deprived of nearly every basic freedom from the moment they are born until the day that they die. Everything I have faced over the past three years, from wearing an ankle monitor to being incarcerated, has been worth it to know that Poppy, Ivy, Aster, and Azalea are receiving the love and care they always deserved.

While I was in jail, I did what I could to continue my advocacy for all of the animals still suffering at Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry facilities. I wrote an open letter to my judge ( [link removed] ) , explaining why I could not apologize to Perdue as he wanted me to:

“To apologize would be to say that Poppy, Ivy, Aster, and Azalea deserved to stay where they were, packed in a crowded cage, bodies infected and aching, as they waited to enter a slaughterhouse kill floor where they’d be painfully shackled upside down and potentially even boiled alive if any part of the slaughter process malfunctioned, as it often inevitably does.”

I also mailed a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta ( [link removed] ) asking him to step in to help these birds as the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office continues to fail to act. I am still waiting for a response.

While on house arrest, I will continue to do what advocacy I can from my apartment, too. I hope you will join me as I post calls to actions on my social media.

As I begin my time on home detention, animal rescuers with Animal Rising are facing trial in the UK for rescuing beagle puppies from animal testing at MBR Acres. The first five rescuers were convicted of burglary in December, but just yesterday, the second group of four were found *not guilty*. This marks the first acquittal of animal rescuers in UK history, setting an important social precedent for the right of animals to be rescued from abuse.

This is the third major acquittal of open rescue activists in recent years. Two DxE activists were found not guilty of theft in 2022 after rescuing two neglected piglets, Lily and Lizzie, from a Smithfield factory farm in rural Utah. Two more DxE activists were acquitted of theft charges in 2023 after rescuing two dying roosters, Ethan and Jax, from the back of a transport truck at a Foster Farms slaughterhouse in California.

Despite my recent felony conviction, I don’t believe that animal rescue is a crime. I believe that the laws that are already on the books largely protect animals from abuse and make rescuing them legally justified. Unfortunately, these laws just aren’t being enforced because companies like Perdue and MBR Acres have so much financial power and influence. This is what we seek to change.

We are continuing to ask Governor Gavin Newsom to issue me a pardon, not just for my own sake, but to send an important message to prosecutorial offices everywhere. We cannot allow our legal system to cast animals aside and deny them the rights they are entitled to.

You can take action now at FreeZoe.org ( [link removed] ).

Thank you all for your support throughout my prosecution and sentence. Even in the face of repression we can accomplish extraordinary things for our animal friends.

Until every animal is free,
Zoe Rosenberg

( [link removed] ) ( [link removed] ) ( [link removed] ) ( [link removed] ) ( [link removed] )

Donate ( [link removed] )

Direct Action Everywhere
PO Box 4782, Berkeley, CA 94704

Unsubscribe ( [link removed] ) - Unsubscribe Preferences ( [link removed] )