An appellate court has denied a bond reduction for a Simms, Texas, man charged with 12 counts of felony animal cruelty.

In recent months, the Berkeley-based group has taken its campaign against Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry facility to a new frontier: the private homes of company executives.

The SC directed that the stray dogs should be returned to the area from where they were picked up after sterilisation, ...