OAKLAND — A demonstration against an East Oakland slaughterhouse that gathered approximately 200 protesters ended with 23 people cited for trespassing, police said Monday.

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Letters: Using Hangar One | Curfew breakers | Climate Catch-22 | COVID ‘fairy tale’ | Column stays rational | Kumar for Congress | Testing priorities The group Direct Action Everywhere organized the Sunday protest in which people proclaiming to be animal rights activists showed up at Saba Live Poultry around 2 p.m. in the 800 block of Kennedy Street to take issue with the treatment of the animals there.

The group took credit in an Instagram post for taking a rabbit, a quail and a lamb from the slaughterhouse and insisted that 20 of their members were arrested. Police said 23 protesters were arrested but they were cited for trespassing and released at the scene.

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According to the slaughterhouse’s website, Saba Live Poultry sells and processes live chickens and other livestock, and customers are welcome to watch the meat-packaging process. They say they slaughter the animals only after customers have purchased the meat.

The company was established in New York City in 1998. Calls to the East Oakland facility where the protests took place were not answered Monday morning.

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