Animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg outside Sonoma County Superior Court in Santa Rosa, Calif. in October. She was jailed for 90 days. Read more Terry Chea / AP

by Associated Press , Associated Press Published Dec. 4, 2025, 7:20 p.m. ET

SANTA ROSA, Calif. — A California animal welfare activist who took four chickens from a major Perdue Farms poultry plant was sentenced to 90 days in jail after being convicted of felony conspiracy, trespassing and other charges.

Zoe Rosenberg, 23, did not deny taking the animals from Petaluma Poultry but argued she wasn’t breaking the law because she was rescuing the birds from a cruel situation. A jury found her guilty in October after a seven-week trial in Sonoma County, an agricultural area of Northern California.

Rosenberg was sentence

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