Vegan activists put on pig masks and covered themselves in fake blood in the London Road branch of Greggs yesterday to call for animal liberation.
The Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) protesters entered the bakery, which launched vegan sausage rolls in January, holding banners and chanting slogans in the latest protest against business which they say profit from the exploitation of animals.
They stayed inside the branch until asked to leave.
A DxE spokeswoman said: “There’s no love or respect in farming animals. There is no kind way to exploit and murder these vulnerable animals who simply want to live and be happy like everyone else.
“There’s no ‘humane’ way to use someone’s body, steal their babies, slit their throats or send them to the gas chamber.
“Over 10 million pigs are slaughtered in Britain each year. Pigs that are smarter than dogs and three-year-old human children according to experts, not that one’s intelligence determines your right to not be abused.
“All animals are sentient beings and as such deserve our respect and compassion.”
Another organiser said: “We are drawing attention to the speciesism that shapes our society leading to so much suffering and death. We don’t want more vegan options, we want animal liberation.
“We want their pain to end and their lives to be protected, not a vegan sausage roll.”
These half-witted vegans may be well intentioned but their actions might be better served by comprehensively educating themselves on this intensely important subject.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/veganism-intensively-farmed-meat-dairy-soya-maize
Gilbert, did you read the opinion piece you posted? The protest was regarding compassion and animal welfare; the piece is about the benefits to the land of livestock; not really related. If someone is against the poor treatment of animals in intensive farming, that doesn’t make them uneducated, or “half-witted”.
I would take away from the opinion piece, that there was tacit support for the arguments against intense farming, which supplies the cheap meat food chain and I think that aligns with a large degree of the vegan message. High welfare farming would make meat a better proposition, but until farms stop grinding chics alive it has a long way to go.
You are tailoring your response to fit your opinion and perhaps the actions of your fellow ‘protestors’ – of course I read the article I posted (there are many similar as well) – it refers to veganism not being the answer to the problems that vegans think it is such as CO2 growth, production of vegan foodstuffs ( which involve intensive methods including using weedkillers and pest-control) that add to these problems and a farmer who is taking steps in the right direction regarding animal welfare and farm crop rotation – I suggest you re-read the article.
Have you looked at the RSPCA Assured scheme and also how the RSPCA works across the UK to encourage good animal welfare?
Please can you supply a link to where you have proof that “chicks are ground alive” and why this inhumane treatment has not been reported to the relevantr authorities?
Hello Peter Challis, here is a tweet from the RSPCA regarding their RSPCA approved eggs “We permit both the use of gas and maceration for the killing of day old chicks.” maceration = being thrown in a meat grinder alive https://twitter.com/rspca_official/status/993289946772459520?lang=en
Nostadamus predicted this year would be about “humans being closer to pigs than people”. This is it right here. Scientists also trying to get a severed pigs brain to come back to life.