Milk pouring protest

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What the fuck is wrong with these idiots?

https://twitter.com/rebelsanimal/status/1581251694444564486?s=46&t=rCJ8ncsUW4dOKMKpSOjI5w

So in a cost of living crisis what they've achieved is a) the waste of perfectly good milk and food (other shops they've poured milk over cheese and other dairy products that will now have to be chucked) and b) forcing underpaid and overworked retail staff to clear up their mess.

The entitlement from these absolute fuckwits is unbelievable.

Would be interested to know if dairy-free MNers agree with these particular protests?

"I'd love them to try doing that in my local asda which is in a very rough area. They'd quite rightly get the shit kicked out of them. Which is why they do it in places like Waitrose"

No doing it your "rough area" or indeed down the coop in my working class area would get NO MEDIA attention at all.

Obviously in a shop in a more affluent location will.

The aim behind this protest almost certainly isn't, as many of you believe, to convert the general public to veganism overnight.

It is to highlight the cause and get people talking about alternatives. And the way to do that is some crazy stunt, in the most deliberately provocative manner possible.

Whether you think they have a point, or wish to force feed the protestors steaks ( I mean what the actual FUCK?) you can't we are talking about it.

@nobodysdaughter you are making out they have achieved their so called aims. They haven't.

If they pulled that stunt in a 'hard' area, which they would never due to being sheltered middle class twat idiots, it would've made the news as they would've had their arses handed to them. They didn't want 'that' publicity.

They haven't achieved people taking about 'the cause' and the alternatives out there. All people are talking about is that they are cunts. End of. I'm not interested now in their cause, nor is anyone else I've spoken to about it.

It came on the radio in work today and no one decided to talk about the dairy industry in general. It didn't spark off that discussion. It was all about how absolutely ridiculous the twats were, the waste, the cost of living, the privilege, the poor prior having to clean up the mess, the supply and demand of what they have done.

It has the opposite effect on what you and they think it will achieve.

It's certainly created a discussion about the hyper privileged attitudes the protestors revealed with their wasteful antics in waitrose and harrods where they could be quite sure the biggest threat they faced was a bit of tutting. Alternatives to dairy not so much.

@CentaureaCyanus exactly.

@nobodysdaughter Obviously in a shop in a more affluent location will.The aim behind this protest almost certainly isn't, as many of you believe, to convert the general public to veganism overnight. It is to highlight the cause and get people talking about alternatives. And the way to do that is some crazy stunt, in the most deliberately provocative manner possible.
Whether you think they have a point, or wish to force feed the protestors steaks ( I mean what the actual FUCK?) you can't we are talking about it.

I disagree. It would definitely get publicity. And the videos of them getting beaten up would be viral in minutes.

I have my own thoughts that have changed as I've got older towards animals that are used for human food or entertainment in it's various forms and it's definitely something I'm interested in learning about further, but not from a bunch of spoilt brats who want to make a big scene and be the centre of attention, wasting something without a thought that some people cannot afford at the moment - never mind the alternatives or plant based versions - during a cost of living crisis and then being so entitled to expect someone else to clean up after them as they pat each other on the back.

Absolutely appalling behaviour and will not get any support from me.

You managed to type that comment on the internet. A hundred years ago we didn't have that capability. We also didn't have the knowledge we have available at our disposal today. Tradition is a terrible reason to continue doing something.

As to your last point, what cuckoo land are you living in? Because as nice as your fantasy is, this is the era of intensive factory farming of a scale never seen before by "our ancestors".

This might clue you in to the level of caretaking currently being enjoyed by animals: animalclock.org/uk/

I find it somewhat amusing that a poster is getting on a moral high horse with a ‘WTAF’ squeal about an imaginary consequence, suggested for myopic privilege driven actual ‘WTAF’ activity like criminal damage and vandalism by the trustafarian blue haired brigade.

I mean, you want to obstruct, steal, damage, vandalise and waste, along with forcing the little people to clean up your mess. They imagine stuffing a burger down your throat as a suitable response. Who can say which is worse/better to be fair?