MARINA BOLOTNIKOVA: In a historic trial over the 2017 removal of two sick and dying piglets from Utah’s Smithfield Foods factory farm, two animal rights activists were acquitted by a jury Saturday night on burglary and theft charges, which could have sent them to prison for five-and-a-half years each. The verdict is the culmination of … Continue reading THE ‘RIGHT TO RESCUE’: In historic case, animal rights activists acquitted for rescuing dying piglets from factory farm