The protesters chained themselves to the line where the ducks get their feet hanged. The workers actually hit the lever to start it up while the activists were attached. One had to be hospitalized.
JOE VAZQUEZ: ‘Nearly 100 people were arrested at a protest by an animal rights group at a duck farm near Petaluma, authorities said… Early in the incident a group of ten protesters with the group Direct Action Everywhere stormed inside, took some ducks off the property and held them in their arms as they sat in a row on the fence line. The group says one of its members was hurt when he put his head on a conveyor belt.
“They chained themselves to that line where the ducks get their feet hanged. The workers actually hit the lever to start it up while the activists were attached,” said Paul Picklesimer of Direct Action Everywhere, who said one activist was hospitalized. They were detained and ultimately arrested; a subsequent daylong protest ensued with protesters chaining themselves by the neck using metal chains, padlocks and bike locks…
Direct Action Everywhere said in a news release that about 600 activists were at the duck slaughterhouse and dozens planned to lock their necks to the slaughterhouse shackles and machinery… A total of 98 protesters were arrested and were being booked into the Sonoma County jail, mostly for trespassing charges, the sheriff’s office said. Direct Action Everywhere said the Reichardt Duck Farm slaughters a million ducks annually and is the subject of numerous reports of animal cruelty.
While many people regard ducks as food, the group insists they should not be killed. “Our culture does involve eating a lot of animals and that’s the way it’s been for a long time. But so many things that we couldn’t imagine that weren’t possible 20 years ago, they happened and they happened faster than we could have imagined,” Picklesimer said. “So that’s what we’re trying to do today, we’re trying to take dramatic action to create change”.’ SOURCE…
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