It’s not exactly an experience you’d expect people to line up for, but PETA wants to give University of Rochester students a taste of what it’s like to be a pig confined in a factory farm. Tomorrow, the organization’s youth-oriented arm, peta2, will set up an inflatable tent on the campus’s Wilson Quad. Inside the […]
animal rights
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Jailing a cage-free activist
Six
months.That’s
180 days, and it’s how long Adam Durand will have to mull over his decision to
enter Wegmans’ hen house while he sits in the WayneCounty jail.
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Of food and felonies
Adam Durand’s palms were sweating. A few minutes before 2 p.m. last Thursday, a Wayne County court clerk addressed the 26-year-old packaging designer from Rochester as “the defendant” and asked him to rise. “When I was asked to stand to hear the verdict, it was an incredible moment,” he recalls. “My heart was racing.” Durand […]
