NOVEMBER 8, 2025, PETALUMA, CA – Activists with the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) held a vigil this afternoon at the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse on Lakeville Highway in Petaluma. They displayed banners and signs reading “Prosecute Petaluma Poultry,” “Chickens Tortured Here,” and “PerdueAbuse.com.”
Petaluma Poultry is a “free range” and partially “organic” subsidiary of Perdue Foods, one of the four largest poultry producers in the United States. It supplies to major grocery chains including Trader Joe’s and Safeway.
Demonstrators faced traffic outside the east entrance of the slaughterhouse, where tandem-trucks filled with thousands of living chickens enter. Over 200,000 chickens are killed at the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse each week. At vigils earlier this year, DxE activists have recorded footage of chickens with painful open wounds crowded inside cages on Petaluma Poultry transport trucks…