SF resident Ani Kandada speaks out while superglued to the refrigerator that holds chicken bodies for sale inside Trader Joes in Pasadena, CA on July 2, 2025. (Credit: Michelle Del Cueto)
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July 3, 2025, PASADENA, CA —On Wednesday afternoon,an animal rights activist, Ani Kandada of San Francisco, was arrested by Pasadena police after supergluing his hand to the refrigerator containing chicken bodies inside the original Trader Joe’s store located at 610 S Arroyo Pkwy, Pasadena, CA. Kandada was protesting the retailer’s continued sale of chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry, a company that has for years faced complaints of animal cruelty and abnormally high rates of pathogens …