Cardboard ocean waves, sailor hats and a 16-foot sailboat set the scene Saturday outside of the Trader Joe’s on University Avenue.
Animal welfare activists aboard the boat parked outside the store warned customers passing by to “steer away” from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry, a company the activists allege engages in animal cruelty.
Though activists from the animal welfare organization Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, prepared multiple seafaring props for the protest, one advocate insisted through a microphone, “Despite all the nautical puns, this is no laughing matter.”…