AN ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST who took four chickens from a Petaluma poultry production facility in 2023 was found guilty of felony conspiracy and misdemeanor counts of trespassing and tampering with a vehicle, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said.  

Zoe Rosenberg, 23, who describes herself as an animal cruelty investigator for the nonprofit animal liberation group Direct Action Everywhere, or DXE, illegally entered Petaluma Poultry — a subsidiary of Perdue Foods — in June 2023 and “rescued” four chickens that she said were sick and neglected. She took the birds to a sanctuary and has named them Poppy, Ivy, Aster and Azalea, DXE said.  

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Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.