As part of their campaign for a “plant-based future,” two vegan activists today dumped milk on the floor of the food halls of Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges in London.
At 11.45 this morning, a bearded guy and a lady in a white dress entered Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly and removed milk bottles from the shelf.
The two, who belonged to the Extinction Rebellion group’s Animal Rebellion branch, then dumped the bottles over the store’s red carpet before leaving.
They were caught on camera at Selfridges on Oxford Street just after at 12.30 p.m. blatantly dumping milk over a cheese counter before being escorted out by security.
The organization also claimed that one of its demonstrators had been “assaulted,” however video appears that this occurred when a guy moved a lady out of the way by putting his arm in front of her neck.
The lady in the video, Madeira-born student and mother Sofia Fernandes Pontes, declared: “I don’t want my children to grow up in a world where there is drought, environmental degradation, and food shortages.”
“I want children to see a beautiful and homely world.” If we want to see a better future for everyone, we must make the switch to a plant-based diet.
For (Prime Minister) Liz Truss and (Environment Secretary) Ranil Jayawardena, helping farmers transition to lucrative and sustainable plant-based agriculture is a no-brainer.
‘I took action throughout September to campaign for a plant-based future, and I am taking action again today because Liz Truss and Ranil Jayawardena are still refusing to listen,’ said Steve Bone, an Essex parent and photographer who was the guy in the films.
“My young girl’s future is at stake, and the Government’s answer is to reject guidance from Oxford and Harvard and instead choose to push us all further into the climatic, ecological, and cost-of-living issues,” the author of the letter said.
The organization referenced a 2018 study from the University of Oxford that claimed “a worldwide shift to plant-based agriculture would free up 76% of the area now utilized for food production.”
Additionally, it made reference to a 2019 Harvard University research on UK agriculture and food production, which it claimed found that the country would become carbon-negative if it switched entirely to a plant-based diet.
In recent months, Animal Rebellion has staged a number of demonstrations with the intention of upsetting the dairy business and putting pressure on the government to comply with its demands.
The government must “assist farmers and fishing communities to shift away from animal farming and fishing as part of an urgent and quick transition to a plant-based food system,” according to its first demand.
The government must “promise to rewild the freed-up land and seas as part of a bigger program of wildlife restoration and carbon drawdown,” according to the second requirement.
The gang attempted to obstruct the delivery of dairy last month; during one demonstration, they glued themselves to the front door of a busy dairy factory in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in an effort to stop the supply line.
Prior to Liz Truss’s first Prime Minister’s Questions, members of the gang were also detained for spray painting Big Ben with “fake milk” white paint.