Posted on 03/11/2019 7:23:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
A horde of 200 vegans stormed a farm in Lincolnshire, England, to protest animal cruelty but crushed two piglets in their stampede, according to the farmer.
Farmer Sylvia Hook said the mob of vegans from the Meat the Victims group distressed her animals while storming Sandilands Farm and, in their rush to cuddle newborn piglets, stomped two of them to death.
The crowd reportedly damaged farm property, frightened Hooks family, caused injury to two other animals and sowed chaos by cuddling piglets that did not want to be held and placing them in the wrong pens with the wrong sows.
About 50 of them all piled into a farrowing house, immediately the sows are jumping up and down, Hook said, according to The Telegraph.
Its caused the death of two young piglets through being squashed and two other piglets Ive had to be taken away to get up and running again.
The sows were very stressed initially with all the noise and the commotion, jumping up and down, squashing piglets, causing general havoc. They were picking piglets up, cuddling them there was a lot of screaming going on. Piglets dont want to be cuddled. Then unfortunately, they were putting the piglets back in the wrong pens, Hook added.
The vegans also reportedly prevented farm hands from feeding the animals and caring for them.
Because it was such a long period of time we were not able to fulfill our caring duties to the animals. We could not get in to feed them as our barrow is the width of the passage, Hook said.
Police monitored the protest at the farm to ensure that it remained peaceful.
They made no arrests.
Meat the Victims reportedly denied Hooks allegations, saying that they neither harmed nor stressed the animals.
A Meat the Victims protester identified only as Earthling Ed asserted that farms are evil, saying Farms are prisons for the innocent. They are death factories.
Glad you’re all disarmed, old chap?
I hope the farmer sues the protesters and the local police, if that’s possible in the UK.
She should sue for monetary damages AND for the pain and suffering caused to the animals! Ask for LOTS of money for the pain and suffering, equivalent to what would be asked for if they were human. The protesters can’t argue with that, now can they?
What they got was this:
What they needed was this:
Since when does free speech include trespassing and destroying private property? Why were police just “monitoring”? This is nuts.
It’s the UK.......................
Funny how we never read of carnivores (or even omnivores) storming a vegan vegetable garden and demanding that they actually employ the use of their incisors for what they are intended and enjoy a nice piece of steak or bar-b-q!
Vegan is old Indian word for ‘Bad Hunter’...........................
So trespassing on private property is ok as long as it's peaceful and you don't kill too many piglets........
I think in the UK as long as you aren’t hurting or killing people, it’s considered ‘peaceful’....................
lol!
They monitored the protest? Do they not have private property in Britain?
Everyone knows that all food comes from the grocery store.....why do we even need farms?????
They made no arrests.
They were busy interrogating someone about their tweets
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