Trader Joe’s continues to sell criminally abused chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry in their own packaging despite thousands of social media comments, emails, phone calls, letters, and store protests asking them to cut ties. And now they’ve even sued us in an attempt to stop us from speaking up. This lawsuit is a clear attempt to silence criticism and keep the public from seeing the suffering we’ve documented at Petaluma Poultry: birds with infectious diseases left untreated, injured animals unable to reach food or water, and chickens who were boiled alive at the slaughterhouse. These abuses are not only inhumane. They're illegal under California law. But we will not be silenced. Not when animals are suffering. Not when the truth is on our side. Animal rights activists across the US gathered to ask Trader Joe’s once again to do the right thing and drop Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry as a supplier. Over 11 cities including Berkeley, Petaluma, LA, Huntington Beach, Denver, Tempe, Tucson, Portland, Chicago, San Diego, Grosse Pointe, participated in the Nationwide Weekend Of Action Against Trader Joe’s. #PerdueTrial #TraderJoes (fb)

A teenage girl was going to kill this lamb. Days before he was supposed to die, she risked everything to save his life. (fb)