Just what the connection to Mountain View is here I can't discern in a first reading of the article.

But most people who first heard about this subject just in the last few years -- thanks to cynical and self-serving publicity campaigns by the likes of Wayne Pacelle, who also is on record wanting to eliminate all US pet ownership -- truly lack any understanding at all of the whole subject. It was an easy, cheap target for demagogues (far easier than addressing the real issues of industrial animal handling, which affect many thousands of times as many animals, and are unknowingly supported by most consumers).

The third comment to a 2018 blog post on this same website explains the situation compactly and objectively: Web Link

meh. Don't like the taste of it. all that's left now are the rants of some triggered bumper sticker slogan chanter.
Nothing to see here. It's over Jim.

Californians certainly obsess over such trivial issues.

"Californians certainly obsess over such trivial issues."

Nah, only the ones who broadly stereotype, and those people are the disregarded fringe, so, life goes on for those with one.