Dozens of animal rights activists stormed a Trader Joe’s store in Oakland over the weekend to protest the grocery chain purchasing chicken from a Bay Area farm accused of animal rights violations. 

Protesters from Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights activism group, on Saturday dressed in white biosecurity suits and held up yellow caution tape in front of the store’s meat section to try and inform shoppers about alleged animal cruelty the group says it has documented at Petaluma Poultry farms in Sonoma County.  

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.