SIX ANIMAL RIGHTS activists are facing felony charges for exposing factory farm cruelty

"SIX ANIMAL RIGHTS activists are facing felony charges, filed on Wednesday by a Utah prosecutor, stemming from an undercover investigation into abusive conditions on a large turkey farm. The criminal complaint includes two felony theft charges that carry possible prison terms of five years each. The six defendants include Diane Gandee Sorbi, 62, a retiree who spends most of her time volunteering at animal shelters; Andrew Sharo, 24, a Ph.D. student in the biophysics program at Berkeley; and Wayne Hsiung, a lawyer and lead investigator. In January 2017, the six activists entered a farm in Moroni, Utah, that supplies turkeys to Norbest, a large company that aggressively markets itself to the public as selling “mountain-grown” turkeys who are treated with particularly humane care. Its marketing materials feature bucolic photographs of Utah nature, designed to create an image that its turkeys are raised in fresh and healthy natural settings, accompanied by assurances that its “practices are humane” and ethical, “with the health and comfort of the birds of paramount importance.”"*

What they found was the opposite, in fact the turkeys were living in such horrible conditions that many of them were suffering from contagious diseases. The activists found turkeys sitting stacked on top of each other, with tumors on the heads. They were sitting in animal waste up to their breasts. They found many dead, or half dead birds. They decided to rescue 3 of the dying birds, and managed to nurse them back to health at a sanctuary. The "theft" was merely decent human beings rescuing a few dying birds out of thousands.

TELL THE UTAH PROSECUTOR TO NOT ASK FOR JAIL TIME