A California animal rights activist has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after being convicted of conspiracy and trespassing for taking four live chickens from a Perdue Farms facility in 2023, prosecutors said.
Zoe Rosenberg, 23, of Berkeley, California, was sentenced on Dec. 3 and ordered to turn herself in to the county jail by Dec. 10, the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office said in a news release. She was sentenced to 90 days of county jail, but 60 of those days can be served through alternatives such as electronic home confinement.
Rosenberg was also ordered to serve two years of probation and pay restitution to Petaluma Poultry, which said it documented over $100,000 in losses from the incident, according to the district attorney's office. Petaluma Poultry is owned by Maryland-based Perdue Farms, one of the largest poultry producers in the country.
Prosecutors said Rosenberg initially faced a maximum sentence of four and a half years in jail after she was found guilty by a jury in late October following a seven-week trial in Sonoma County, a major wine-producing and agricultural region in Northern California. She was convicted of a felony charge of conspiracy, two misdemeanor counts of trespassing, and one count of tampering with a vehicle.
