Yahoo!Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:01 UTC
© Facebook/ DXE Brighton
Vegan activists have struck again, this time at a Brazilian steakhouse where they played sounds of animals being slaughtered from portable speakers.
The group, made of up about 20 protestors from Direct Action Everywhere, rushed the restaurant in the English city of Brighton on Sunday evening, local news site Brighton and Hove Independent reported.
Footage uploaded to their Facebook page shows the group positioned around the restaurant and chanting at patrons.
Waving banners, the activists can be heard chanting "it's not food, it's violence" to diners before subjecting them to the noises of slaughtered animals.Despite their orders for diners to down their forks, their protest was instead met with ridicule and jeers from the bemused crowd.After one female activist addresses the diners with a speech, the group made their way outside and chanted: "What do we want? Animal liberation! When do we want it? Now."
Police were called to the protest however no arrests were made with officers allowing the group to continue with their "right to peaceful protest".
A DxE Brighton spokesperson told the news site "we can no longer ignore the suffering and pain we cause."
"Animal exploitation has become so normalised it goes virtually unnoticed but we are paying attention.
"People and businesses should not be able to enjoy the product or profit of animal suffering."
Comment: One has to wonder what the goal of these vegan protesters is. Disturbing people in the middle of their dinner, affecting independent businesses and being an all-around jerk is not going to win you any converts. All it will do is annoy the hell out of people, increase animosity, and make them think you're crazy (and rightly so). It's an extremely poorly thought-out strategy.
Here's more from Direct Action Everywhere:
Update:From the
Daily Mail:
Vegan activist who played the sounds of cows being slaughtered in a Brighton steak-house is the daughter of a millionaire meat merchant behind ยฃ56.5m posh ready meals company
A vegan activist who stormed a steak house and Tesco meat aisle is the daughter of a millionaire meat selling CEO.
Morgan Kayleigh Giampaolo raided the Touro steak-house in Brighton to play animal slaughter noises to diners last week.
She also attended a Tesco in Hove with 'Direct Action Everywhere' as they held a 'silent disruption' event, standing in the meat aisle with signs saying: 'It's not food it's violence' and graphic images of abattoirs while mothers pushed toddlers past them in prams.
Morgan's father, American businessman David Giampaolo, runs Pi Capital and is Chairman of Gousto, where customers can buy steak, sausage and lamb.
One wonders if the vegan daughter has demanded that she receive no money or inheritance from the meat income of her father?
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