From authoring Measure J, 2024’s most contentious countywide ballot measure, to disrupting grocery store poultry aisles, animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere has become a familiar — and divisive — presence in the North Bay.
In recent months, the Berkeley-based group, also known as DxE, has taken its campaign against Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry facility to a new frontier: the private homes of company executives.
Week after week, the group of activists gather outside the residences to decry what they call systemic animal cruelty at the company’s farms and slaughterhouses…