Posted on 05/29/2018 6:43:51 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Attacks on small businesses by vegan activists are on the rise, according to the Countryside Alliance.
Death threats, stoked by social media and encouraged by international groups of activists, have caused butchers and farmers to “live in fear.”
Marlow Butchers, in, Ashford, Kent, was targeted earlier this month by activists who daubed red paint on the doors and windows of the shop. Since then, the business has been subjected to online abuse.
Wayne Marlow, who runs the business with his father and brother, told Kent Online: “On the internet, it has been very threatening. It has got ridiculous — activists from as far away as Australia are getting involved. The internet is the worst thing as not only are they threatening to physically destroy our business, but they are also trying to ruin our reputation online, too, by leaving negative reviews and comments. They want to close us down and people are threatening to smash the windows or petrol-bomb the store. We live in fear and we’re up worrying at night — they are terrorizing us.”
The family has reported the threats to the police.
Tim Bonner, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance told The Telegraph: “There’s been an escalation of attacks on butchers, markets, and even abattoirs and it’s an extension of animal rights campaigns we have seen around other areas, using the same tactics including online abuse. They usually attack small independent businesses rather than taking on the big boys — it’s quite cowardly.” …
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There are still butchers in England? I thought they banned knives
GMTA
Vegans ... the assholes of the vegetarian crowd.
Oooooh scaaaaary vegetariNs
Ever met one ?
Not I
Once you are seen as weak you are food for the wolves.
The liberals don’t even see the hypocrisy and irony in their actions.
The knife ban is in London(istan). Ashford is about 60 miles southeast.
The scythe versus the cleaver.
Vegan idiots...never attack a guy who uses a meat cleaver for a living. On second thought, go ahead.
These scum have been threatening to firebomb butcher shops. That’d put them some distance from the meat cleaver.
vegan ISIS
Sucks not to have guns.
Vegetarianism makes people crazy. It’s the lack of important animal fats that cause people to be depressed, confused, and violent.
Are they attacking halal butchers or only the traditional ones who wear straw hats?
It happens when you submit to the tyranny of being disarmed.
I have. She would order pepperoni pizzas only to pull off the pepperonis and toss them into the garbage. What’s worse, eating the animal that was slaughtered or tossing it in the trash? She also was clueless about the white chunks in pork ‘n beans.
Maybe she just wanted the flavored grease?
Is there a village in England named “ Fear” because that would be the only way this headline makes sense. WTF would actually be in fear of a Vegan?
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