Berkeley vegan activist covers herself in poop outside SoMa Trader Joe's in protest
By Filipa Ioannou Published 10:56 am, Thursday, March 22, 2018
A UC Berkeley student and activist with the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere covered herself in animal feces outside a San Francisco Trader Joe's on Thursday morning.
The woman, Cassie King, was protesting at the store on Fourth Street in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood over conditions at farms that supply eggs to Trader Joe's.
A recent investigation by Direct Action Everywhere allegedly found starving chickens living amid heaps of their own waste at a supplier in Michigan.
"The supposedly 'humane' eggs sold at Trader Joe's come from birds who lived their entire lives in piles of waste," King said, adding that deceptive labels "mislead consumers into paying for cruelty."
SFGATE has reached out to Trader Joe's for comment and will update this story.
Direct Action Everywhere's attention-grabbing demonstrations crop up frequently around the Bay Area.
The activists have stormed the dining area at iconic Berkeley eatery Chez Panisse, protested turkey sales at an East Bay Whole Foods around Thanksgiving time, and pushed for the ban on sales of new fur that was approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week.
Filipa Ioannou is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at fioannou@sfchronicle.com and follow her on Twitter
Chicken Sh-t Protest
Chicken Sh-t Protest
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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Chicken Shit Protest
Animal feces... can I assume she used chicken shit? Otherwise her protest may have been all for naught.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Ok this is really funny! I want to see this become a MOVEMENT! A great Big Movement!
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Bicycle Bill
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It's a shitty job, but somebody's gotta do it.....
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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I think she's bullshitting everyone.
Chicken Shit Protest
I'll bet she'll have no fertility problems after this.
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I think the yolk's on her.
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Eggs-actly. I wonder how much she had to shell out for this piece of performance art?ex-khobar Andy wrote:I think the yolk's on her.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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I wonder how we could get the anti abortion rights protesters to do this?