Factory living sickened Foster’s chickens, with one dying post-rescue and found to have an infection that can kill humans. But damning, surreptitious videos - here and here - exposed nightmarish conditions at Foster and Smithfield. “If it can happen in southern Utah,” one of the acquitted rejoiced, “it can happen anywhere,” especially after the FBI and the state’s attorney general piled on to pursue and prosecute the defendants.ĭirect Action Everywhere, the activist group sponsoring the rescues, has been pushing this tactic for a decade.
Of course they prevailed in La-La Land, you’re thinking? Know that in Utah, where Donald Trump beat Joe Biden by 20 points, a jury last fall sprang two rustlers who took a piglet pair from Smithfield Foods, the country’s biggest pork producer. They copped to the bird-napping, rejected plea deals and risked jail to get their day in the courts of law and public opinion. “Baywatch” may have been 1990s schlock, but cast member Alexandra Paul and her accomplice bared bring-it-on bravado to prosecutors and broiler behemoth Foster Farms. Three weeks before Easter, two California defendants beat theft charges involving a pair of rescued chickens. Therein glimmers, faintly, hope for those over which Genesis conferred dominion to fallen humanity. Still, I’ll be toasting a victory for animals, legal if not culinary: Juries are acquitting people who liberate tortured creatures from factory farms.
Veganism makes me cheerfully fringe compared with meat-and-potato Easter feasters, not to mention those who observe Passover and Ramadan this sacred season. With an assist from these items, which I’ve never sampled, my vegan Easter dinner will mingle tried-and-true staples (homemade charoset, a Jewish dessert I love) with adventure. (Getty Images)īaked cakes of zucchini, peas and chickpeas with non-dairy feta and yogurt sauce.
A young boy sprinkling fresh herbs on a vegetable dish.
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