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Activists with Direct Action Everywhere hold a funeral for the chickens killed at Petaluma Poultry and sold at Trader Joe’s, as Buddhist monk Robert Yamada leads a prayer for the chickens on Saturday, July 19, 2025. (Credit: Michelle Del Cueto)
July 19, 2025, OAKLAND, CA — Today, around two dozen activists with the grassroots animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) held a 40-minute funeral for the chickens being sold inside the Trader Joe’s store located on College Avenue in Oakland. With eulogies and Buddhist prayers, they mourned the countless chickens who suffer and die at Trader Joe’s “free-range,” “organic” chicken supplier, Petaluma Poultry. The activists were dressed in black and carried flowers and photos of chickens at Petaluma Poultry. They also laid black cloth and flowers over the chicken bodies in the refrigerator.
Petaluma Poultry is a “free range” and partially “organic” subsidiary of Perdue Foods, the fourth largest poultry producer in the United States. Trader Joe’s sells Petaluma Poultry chicken (identified by USDA plant code P2882) in its own Trader Joe’s-branded packaging…