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Whole Foods v vegans: Berkeley store gets restraining order against activists
The Guardian ^ | 10/05/2018 | Gabrielle Canon

Posted on 10/05/2018 3:03:56 PM PDT by DFG

For a full week, a big black banner was posted from a sidewalk in Berkeley, California. “OCCUPY WHOLE FOODS”, it declared in large, white block letters.

But the protesters who created it, a group from the animal rights activist organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), were not actually able to do much occupying. Just days before a weeklong protest scheduled for late September, in which the activists had planned to call attention to alleged animal welfare violations by suppliers to Whole Foods’ parent company, Amazon, the Berkeley store filed a restraining order.

“We are not allowed to even step foot in the parking lot right now,” said Cassie King, a DxE organizer. “We can’t go inside the store and ask our questions.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: antifa; astroturf; berkeley; california; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; peta; vegan; wholefoods
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1 posted on 10/05/2018 3:03:56 PM PDT by DFG
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Nitwit parade


2 posted on 10/05/2018 3:08:12 PM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: DFG

Jeff Bezos may be a leftie, but don’t interfere with him making money.


3 posted on 10/05/2018 3:08:35 PM PDT by Hugin ("Not one step from his weapons should a traveler take"...Havamal 38)
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Profoundly unhappy people determined to make everybody as miserable as they.


4 posted on 10/05/2018 3:09:55 PM PDT by all the best
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To: DFG

Virtue Shopping.


5 posted on 10/05/2018 3:10:15 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: DFG

The left’s nutcase goon brigades on display!


6 posted on 10/05/2018 3:19:04 PM PDT by dowcaet
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Better protest at the hardware store.

Ban flyswatters.

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7 posted on 10/05/2018 3:23:21 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: DFG

They don’t look happy


8 posted on 10/05/2018 3:23:50 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Or ban condoms.

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9 posted on 10/05/2018 3:24:07 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: DFG

If you concentrate real hard, you can almost smell them.


10 posted on 10/05/2018 3:24:36 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: FatherofFive

No, but the one in the front might not be guilty. The rest are as guilty as sin.


11 posted on 10/05/2018 3:24:55 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DFG

If they want to protest outside the store, fine (not that I agree with them). But marching through the store?


12 posted on 10/05/2018 3:24:59 PM PDT by CatOwner
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People Eating Tasty Animals


13 posted on 10/05/2018 3:26:13 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: DFG

Well, give a pig a pancake.

How do you like that lib vibe now, Whole Foods?


14 posted on 10/05/2018 3:28:29 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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SAVE PORKY !!!


15 posted on 10/05/2018 3:29:07 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: DFG

Millennial hippies vs Vegan store hippies! Popcorn time!


16 posted on 10/05/2018 3:29:32 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: DFG

Always entertaining to watch leftists eat their own


17 posted on 10/05/2018 3:35:13 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: DFG

How can people who spend most of their time drinking, getting high and having sex be so unhappy?


18 posted on 10/05/2018 3:39:22 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (I speak hyperbolically)
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Smiley face
19 posted on 10/05/2018 3:49:44 PM PDT by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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I don’t see why the lefties at Whole Food have a problem with this: all they want to do is ask some questions and speak their truth.


20 posted on 10/05/2018 3:51:02 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 1,500 posts as of 8/10/18. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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