Posted on 07/15/2021 3:48:36 AM PDT by Libloather
Climate change and animal rights protesters in the U.K. have blocked entry to a factory which makes burgers for McDonald's while demanding the fast-food chain moves to an entirely plant-based menu.
Around 50 activists from the Animal Rebellion group have set up camp and formed a blockade at the OSI Food Solutions factory in Scunthorpe, England, in a bid to cause "massive disruption" to McDonald's supply chain.
**SNIP**
"More generally, McDonald's represents the broader meat and dairy industry, which we want to see a transition to a plant based food system, which in line with reports and science which shows a need to drastically reduce the amount of meat and dairy we consume in order to reduce the effects of the climate crisis," Harley McDonald-Eckersall, an Animal Rebellion spokesperson who is taking part in the protest, told Newsweek.
"It a specific demand of McDonald's to own up to the responsibility that they have to transition their menu to being plant based in the near future. There is also our broader demand that we need a transition to a plant based food system in order to have a future and have a planet which is habitable for generations to come," McDonald-Eckersall added.
Rose Patterson, a spokesperson for Animal Rebellion, said in a statement: "We're living in a time where massive change is possible, but our window to act on the climate crisis is closing quickly.
"The meat and dairy industries are responsible for 80-90 percent of Amazon deforestation, at least 18 percent of global emissions, and for exploiting and killing billions of animals every year.
"To save ourselves and the future of our children, we must start transitioning towards a plant-based food system."
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Gotta find a way to blockade the activist's supply lines.
What about their police? Were they ordered to stand down, like the left does in America? All it would take is a few nightsticks and maybe a water cannon or two. Then away go troubles down the drain!
No they don't. Mcdonald’s don't represent the dairy and meat industry. They merely buy products from them like everyone else.
The deranged British leftists just want to hit a big American multinational.
which we want to see a transition to a plant based food system
Dream on suckers.
Their little temper tantrum will not last even 5 hours. I am sure that little band of 50 anarchists has been cleared off by now.
As long as they don't use fertilizer, pesticides or water and don't ship their, "plant based" foods in, "green house" emitting trucks, boats or planes!
Besides, hamburger comes from a plant! The meat packing plant!
Beef is generated by a plant based animal.
It's well known cow's menu include diverse grasses, with the upper end of their diet being alfalfa.
“which we want to see a transition to a plant based food system”
How about this, society does not force you to be a meat eater, then dont tell me to be a plant eater, stop telling others how to live.
How to get rid of the activists in 3 easy steps.
1. Setup loudspeakers inside the property, on top of buildings, aimed at the activists.
2. Play “It’s a Small World” on an endless loop.
3. There is no step three.
That may be the cruelest suggestion I have ever seen posted on this forum. More merciful to simply kill them outright...
Are there no fire hoses in Britain?
The freaks should take themselves to the Amazon and stand in front of bulldozers that are destroying the forest.
It's already on the market. Tastes like Mint chocolate
Besides, hamburger comes from a plant! The meat packing plant!
Yeah, they do. But it’s probably taxed like everything else there (TV License, Hose-pipe tax, Road Tax, etc).
Hundreds protest at abortion clinics every single day, they never make the news.
50 weirdos boycott McDonald’s and they get mentions.
Don’t make McDonald’s mad you might end up in their burgers ,LOL
I'd bring out the LeRoy Neiman paintings.
Note that they don’t try to convince people to not eat meat, they want to stop them from eating meat.
Future Dictators the lot
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