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Jury finds San Luis Obispo County animal activist guilty of conspiracy

October 31, 2025

Zoe Rosenberg

By KAREN VELIE

A jury on Thursday found a 23-year-old woman with an animal sanctuary in San Luis Obispo County guilty of conspiracy and trespassing after she entered a poultry plant and took four chickens.

Convicted of one felony count of conspiracy and four misdemeanors, Zoe Rosenberg faces up to four and a half years in prison at her sentencing hearing on Dec. 3. Until then, she is out on bail with a GPS monitor and an order to stay away from farms and several named activists.

On June 13, 2023, Rosenberg and several others disguised as workers entered a poultry slaughterhouse north of San Fransisco. They put four chickens into buckets, loaded them into a vehicle, and left Petaluma Poultry.

Rosenberg’s defense attorney wanted to provide evidence that Petaluma Poultry was mistreating animals. The judge denied his request.

Prosecutors argued Rosenberg took the chickens as part of a publicity stunt. They said that Rosenberg snuck into Petaluma Poultry four times and attached GPS devices to 12 delivery vehicles before snatching the chickens.

“This verdict affirms that no one is above the law,” said Sonoma County District Attorney Carla Rodriguez. “While we respect everyone’s right to free expression, it is unlawful to trespass, disrupt legitimate businesses, and endanger workers and animals in pursuit of a political or social agenda.”

 


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If she had only lead the chickens to a freeway and incited them to block it, she would probably only get four days probation (one for each chicken) and have to clean up both chicken parts and chickens…stuff from the freeway.


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Typical cult mentality, or lack therof.


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I remember the story of the animal activists over in the central valley who decided to release a bunch of turkeys from a farm just before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, the combination of thick Tule fog the day they did it and proximity to Highway 99 had disastrous results with turkey parts strewn across the road. You can just imagine a turkey encountering a big rig traveling 65 mph. It wasn’t pretty.


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Wow Adam. We finally found a topic we can agree on. Trespassing, stealing, and vandalizing in the name of “animal rights” is wrong. And “freeing” turkeys who were not born in the wild & are used to eating several square meals a day do not do very well in the big wide world, like what happened in the memory you cite.

Now, I am curious if you agree with me? This woman is facing 4 years as a consequence of the myriad laws she broke. That seems fair and logical to me. I have no doubt that she would have received a slap on the wrist and become a repeat offender if CA had not passed Prop 36 which re-criminalized theft, trespassing, etc. (Prop 36 repealed Prop 47 of 2014). It struck me that she is facing half the jail time that the CSAM user AND distributor that CCN wrote about several days ago, because of Prop 57 (the companion piece to Prop 47). I believe this women’s sentence is fair, and the creep’s day in jail for every hour of CSAM he had in his possession (yet alone distribution of same, and other felonies he was charged with) is a total DISGRACE. This guy’s habits are set in stone. He will not be rehabbed in jail. He will most certainly be a repeat offender. This is not because of anything our DA did, it is all because of Prop 57!

If we got a repeal of Prop 57 on the ballot, to recriminalize hard felonies with 20-to-life sentencing, would you, Adam, and your Democratic friends vote for it?


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Throw the book at her. I’ve always been a hardliner on crime. I was a Republican, as was my grandfather and father, but the Republican party of Trump is far different than mine. Republicans like Reagan, Lagomarsino, Maddy (look them up) are tossing in their grave over the current so-called Republican Party. But on this, I agree. This young lady needs to see life from behind bars for a while.


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I am curious as to which Trump position made you leave the GOP? I have found that he is very much in line with Reagonomics, but more dramatically so on the international/tariff front because Trump is serving in a post-Clinton and post-Obama presidency era. Reagan, for example, didn’t have to create incentives for American car manufacturers to come back to America because they were all in Detroit in the 1980s! Now almost all of them have moved out of the country, to the detriment of America’s working class.

Reagan had to deal with the inflation of Jimmy Carter’s term and a weakened military. Trump has to deal with Biden’s inflation, Biden’s open borders, Obama’s destruction of healthcare and the DOJ, and Clinton’s offshoring of American manufacturing.


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Agreed but she hasn’t been sentenced yet she faces up to 4.5 years maximum, 1.13 years per chicken. In reality she’ll probably only get a fraction of that lets say 1.5 years and do only 50% or 9 months in county jail, 2.25 months per chicken.

Hopefully she is assigned to serve the main dish at chow line, yes you guessed it’s chicken again.


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“As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly”


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Actions have consequences. Enjoy.


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