Dec 5, 2019 · One of them, Lewis Bernier, remembers hearing the people around him gasping and crying. “It felt like I was part of the team taking this action,” says Bernier, who later joined DxE full time.

May 13, 2024 · When that information was unavailable, Lewis Bernier said, he calculated the size of barn space using Google Earth images — he looked at “hundreds of hours of satellite imagery” — and ...

Oct 8, 2022 · Lewis Bernier, an organizer with DxE who said he’s a friend of both Hsiung and Picklesimer, drove from San Francisco to be there.

Kristina Garfinkel, a lead organizer with the Coalition to End Factory Farming, and Lewis Bernier, a factory farm investigator, shared the truth about the 21 Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) in Sonoma County and how they are impairing local waterways with waste runoff, harming animals, outcompeting smaller farms, and spreading ...

Lewis Bernier, an animal rights activist supporting the initiative, said he has visited several factory farms across the country, documenting inhumane treatment, and one farm in Sonoma County stands out as having “the worst and most systemic animal cruelty that I’ve ever seen.”

May 23, 2024 · "I've seen these horrific conditions firsthand, and I've reported them to law enforcement repeatedly, but nothing has been done. They're estimated to confine over two hundred thirty thousand...

Nov 8, 2023 · “To spend so much time thinking about the vulnerabilities in these facilities, how to get in, avenues of approach,” says Lewis Bernier, a longtime investigator at DxE who has led or ...

Oct 21, 2024 · Lewis Bernier, left, and Kristina Garfinkel during a Sept. 18 debate on Measure J. Bernier and Garfinkel represent the Coalition to End Factory Farming, a group that argues Sonoma County’s...

Sep 20, 2023 · It was a moonless night not long ago in Northern California. With me were Alicia Santurio and Lewis Bernier, two activists from an animal-rights group called Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE.

Jun 10, 2024 · “People deserve a say over what happens in the county they live in, and people don’t want that happening here,” said Lewis Bernier, a researcher for Direct Action Everywhere, a Berkeley-based group with a history of confrontational …