Whole Foods has sued the California animal rights group, Direct Action Everywhere, over ongoing protests the group has held—or plans to hold—at the retailer’s locations in that state, according to meatingplace.com.
Whole Foods was granted a restraining order last week in Northern California’s Superior Court of Alameda County that effectively blocked a protest that Direct Action Everywhere planned at the company’s Berkeley, CA, location.
In the lawsuit, Whole Foods alleges that members of the activist organization have been trespassing illegally at its stores. Direct Action Everywhere has been focused on Whole Foods and its offerings at least since 2015, although various videos that the group has released have been determined not to show the routine animal cruelty that the activists allege.
