Animal rights blocking Mcdonalds distribution

[Lofty1984]

McDonald's: Animal rights group blockades depots, activists say — BBC News

Animal Rebellion says it is stopping restaurant supplies from leaving four UK distribution centres.

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Why are they continually alowed to disrupt businesses and basically do as they please under the illusion that we farmers are destroying the planet

 

[Sid]

UK animal rights group blockades four McDonald’s depots

Activists plan 24-hour protest in attempt to get company to turn fully plant-based by 2025

www.theguardian.com

Fruit cakes

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Aye and the tuwants went to KFC on the way home

 

[Macsky]

McDonald's: Animal rights group blockades depots, activists say — BBC News

Animal Rebellion says it is stopping restaurant supplies from leaving four UK distribution centres.

apple.news

Why are they continually alowed to disrupt businesses and basically do as they please under the illusion that we farmers are destroying the planet

Very good and serious question! It is terrorism.

 

[GeorgeK]

It's good IMO, this sort of behaviour will turn the masses against them faster than anything we could do

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

It's good IMO, this sort of behaviour will turn the masses against them faster than anything we could do

Please explain your train of thoughts on this

 

[GeorgeK]

Please explain your train of thoughts on this

There's a helluva lot of people enjoy a Maccy's and they won't be impressed that an extremist minority are trying to prevent their freedom of choice. I think it alienates a lot of people to their cause, just like when XR held up commuters on trains trying to get to work and it wasn't well received

 

[yellowbelly]

Please explain your train of thoughts on this

The vast mast majority of McD's customers (and there's a hell of a lot of 'em) don't much care about veganism etc, all they want is their Big Mac. A load of idiots trying to stop them getting one will just alienate them from their (the idiots, that is) cause.
IMHO, they wouldn't be inclined to listen to anything we say regarding meat eating so XR are, in a roundabout way, helping us.

 

[Raider112]

I still don't get how some can say that bunch of freaks are our biggest allies.

 

[Muck Spreader]

You have to wonder if they are being funded by some corporate organisation that stands to profit from vegan produce. After all, if I was wanting to be a planet saving activist I would be targeting the real problems, anything that used fossil fuels; airports, sea ports, refineries, car showrooms, powerstations, etc. Not a sector that has been part of the earth's balanced 'carbon cycle' for millennia.

 

[GeorgeK]

I still don't get how some can say that bunch of freaks are our biggest allies.

Not allies, more of an own goal hopefully. Although we can doubtless trust the BBC to very supportive of their cause and gloss over/omit the illegalities and disruption caused.

 

[Kidds]

Can't you just shoot a couple of them?

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Don't need to do that with the one in Basingstoke.

Just tell the residents of Oakridge there's a few bottles of vodka in it for them if they deal with the problem. Bonus is that it would be environmentally friendly. Oakridge is next door to where the depot is, so they could walk there.

 

[Luke6930]

McDonalds seems as busy as usual so I don't think its been affected too bad yet

 

[Treg]

 

[primmiemoo]

May have missed something, but the clip on the Radio 4 news just now had one of the blockaders saying that they have proof that McDonald's uses rainforest beef.

 

[Lofty1984]

May have missed something, but the clip on the Radio 4 news just now had one of the blockaders saying that they have proof that McDonald's uses rainforest beef.

I have proof the tooth fairy exists

 

[Bald Rick]

Can't you just shoot a couple of them?

What would you do with the meat?

 

[kfpben]

May have missed something, but the clip on the Radio 4 news just now had one of the blockaders saying that they have proof that McDonald's uses rainforest beef.

I’m sure some of their branches use rainforest beef...in South America.
Their U.K. restaurants source British and Irish beef.

 

[Tarw Coch]

May have missed something, but the clip on the Radio 4 news just now had one of the blockaders saying that they have proof that McDonald's uses rainforest beef.

They claim to be using British and Irish beef here, although I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they use “rainforest” beef..................., in their South American stores.

Kfpben beet me too it.