A Sonoma County judge ordered an animal rights activist to jail for a case involving four chickens she claimed needed rescue from a Petaluma poultry processor — the culmination of a two-year court battle between a controversial animal liberation movement and one of the Bay Area’s core agricultural regions.
Zoe Rosenberg, 23, a recent UC Berkeley student and high-profile representative of Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, a Berkeley-based group seeking “total animal liberation,” must report to the Sonoma County Jail on Dec. 10. She will serve the 90 days, but 60 of those may involve jail alternates. Rosenberg will also have 2 years of probation, and is ordered to stay away from Petaluma Poultry and all Purdue facilities in Sonoma County.
She is also ordered to pay $102,548.09 in restitution to Petaluma Poultry, which has said that any restitution would be given to the local food bank…