Posted on 12/29/2013 2:07:07 PM PST by RightGeek
A Greenpeace campaigner claims he was forced to live on bread and water while being held in a Russian prison because it didn't offer a vegetarian alternative.
Antony Perrett arrived home yesterday after spending two months in prisons in Murmansk and St Petersburg for trying to hang a climate change banner on an oil rig.
The former town councillor is one a group of environmental activists known as the Arctic 30 who were being held in Russia on hooliganism charges.
Since being released under a new amnesty law, the 33-year-old has revealed he refused to eat some of the food offered to him behind bars.
'All the prison food had low grade meat of unknown origin in it. I'm a vegetarian and I lost a lot of weight,' he said from his home in Newport, South Wales.
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Roflmao!!!!!
Pardon me while I peel an onion to work up a tear.
LOLOL!!! 100%...
Roflmao!!!!!
If Putin rides a Ritz, what does Obama ride?
“Do they serve pork to muslims?
Not even if it’s hallal?”
According to the Koran, one must first circumcise the hog before slaughtering for it to be a real Hallel hog.
just glad my mouth was empty... damn
He was not forced. He chose. Major difference there.
Is it possible the fat on his face simple migrated down from inside his cranium?
You mean the serve MEAT in a Russian prison? What ever happened to borscht and nettle soup!
I must now go re read ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH.
I think the US Marine Brig at Quantico puts troublesome inmates on B&W for two weeks at a time, repeated as necessary.
Flour, water, salt, old bread, sour dough.
Naugahyde
bump
Russian history provides plenty of examples of people who would have been ever so thankful for a steady supply of bread and water. (And this guy turned down regular food too ). Methinks when you act like a meddlesome a- hole and get yourself tossed into gaol you are lucky they both fed and then actually released you.
Lol..thanks for the laugh
I wouldn’t bet there wasn’t animal product in that bread.
Vegetarians, like all folks, come in all stripes. I have a friend that is vegan and would argue over a plate of pancakes (with no butter) that they NEVER eat any animal product. I’ve also seen this person eat jello. Guess they don’t cook much.
Truth is, if you are eating something someone else made, you don’t know what you are eating.
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