{"id":758400,"date":"2019-10-02T08:14:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758400"},"modified":"2019-10-02T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:14:11","slug":"san-franciscos-whole-foods-animal-rights-protest-ends-with-37-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758400","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s Whole Foods animal rights protest ends with 37 arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>DxE activists also handcuffed themselves together at Amazon's offices in San Francisco. The protests came after the group uncovered instances of cruel conditions at farms that supply to Amazon and Whole Foods. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MICHAEL BARTIROMO:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Thirty-seven protesters with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) were reportedly arrested amid a protest outside \u2014 and on top of \u2014 a Whole Foods market in San Francisco on Monday&#8230; A live stream of the incident was broadcast on the group\u2019s Facebook page, captioned with the message, \u201cActivists are chaining their necks to the doors of Whole Foods and locking down Amazon, asking Jeff Bezos to support the #RightToRescue animals from factory farms&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The protest, which was staged by animal-rights activists with Direct Action Everywhere, was demonstrating against what the group alleges to be \u201ccriminal animal abuse\u201d by farms that supply Amazon, the parent company of Whole Foods. According to a press release shared by Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), the protest was also attempting to raise awareness and support for Rose\u2019s Law, a proposed animal bill of rights supported by animal-rights organizations&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>During DxE\u2019s demonstration, activists chained themselves together in front of the store\u2019s Noe Valley location, with some even \u201csupergluing\u201d themselves to each other, according to DxE. Social media posts from outside the store also show the group had erected a large image of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 head on the roof of the store, with a sign over it reading, \u201cI profit from criminal animal abuse&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>DxE\u2019s protests came after the group claims to have uncovered alleged instances of \u201ccruel conditions\u201d at farms that supply to Amazon and Whole Foods. In its press release, issued Monday afternoon, DxE also urged Jeff Bezos to \u201cdisavow the prosecution of six peaceful activists\u201d who were previously arrested on felony charges for trying to break animals out of some of the farms. Simultaneously, during Monday&#8217;s protests, activists with the group were also said to have handcuffed themselves together at Amazon&#8217;s offices in San Francisco&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/food-drink\/whole-foods-san-francisco-protest-37-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nWSdA0Ht_uE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MICHAEL BARTIROMO: &#8216;Thirty-seven protesters with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) were reportedly arrested amid a protest outside \u2014 and on top of \u2014 a Whole Foods market in San Francisco on Monday&#8230; A live stream of the incident was broadcast on the group\u2019s Facebook page, captioned with the message, \u201cActivists are chaining their necks to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35,38],"class_list":["post-758400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-veganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758402,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758400\/revisions\/758402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}