>The group also said it would take action at supermarkets in five UK cities on Saturday by blocking shoppers from reaching milk and dairy aisles.
Wouldn’t that just make the milk and dairy products go to waste? surely disruption at the source, instead of after the milking has already been done is a better approach?
> they demand the government supports a transition to a “plant-based food system” and rewild land used for animal pasture.
I don’t think the government says people can’t transition to plant-based food? Or do they mean, force plant-based food on everyone?
Shoppers should be allowed to give them a clout. Block a civilians way in a daft protest, they can give you a clout to get you to shift
I will still buy the same amount of milk regardless but possibly some milk will go past it’s sell by date due to disruptions which means we’ll need even more milk to cover the loss.
None of this will change the habits of millions of people to any noticeable degree as the past has shown, so maybe just stop pissing people off to get noticed, hasn’t gone too well for militant vegans or the eco numpties. Nobody supports those narcissistic, power hungry sad sacks because they’re annoying people, not educating.
Wow, I’m convinced that I must go 100% vegan right now as a result of this. I will never touch an animal product again.
Or maybe I’ll just think these people are nut-cases and carry on with my life as normal.
Imagine cutting a supply of high protein, nutrient rich, cheap calories during a cost of living crisis. This is literally how to kill people. The reason north western european people have the DNA changes required to drink milk is probably because it got us through a bottle neck starvation episode back in history. Most of the world cannot safely drink milk in vast quantities like brits and some other countries.
Maybe doing it in a Cost of living crisis is not a good idea. They are only going to piss off people, especially working class people.
I agree pasture-land would be best used for plant foods. But pissing off the average consumer and making milk go to waste isn’t the way to convince people to your cause. I’m totally convinced these people mostly do these things for themselves, not for their cause.
I don’t drink milk but maybe it’s not a great time to be messing with peoples food with the whole cost of living crisis going on right now. Food prices are going up as it is and people will be struggling to feed their families.
Can they not? Like I get it they want to force everyone to be like them, but if they keep this up these groups are just going to be hated.
People like dairy products, you don’t get to choose for them.
I don’t like dick heads who block roads and disrupt things but I’m not going out and stopping you.
Basically good for them but they’re dick heads.
Time to fight back my non vegan friends. Start emptying cartons of soya milk and switch off the fridge/freezers housing the vegan burgers and sausages 😉
What happens if you move the non-dairy milk to the centre of the dairy aisle so they have to let people past to get oat milk?
>The group also said it would take action at supermarkets in five UK cities on Saturday by blocking shoppers from reaching milk and dairy aisles.
Can security and/or the police not just remove them as this would be private property rather than a public highway?
Everyone is against animal cruelty until they have to confront their diet. Their methods might be annoying but let’s not act as if dairy is necessary, good for the environment or an industry with animal welfare at its heart. The evidence is freely available to read online, yet people don’t want to admit they support an unethical industry.
They’ll glue their hands to the floors in the milk isle?
its a really difficult issue.
Part of me wants to be like yeah help the cows drink oat milk, stop eating meat,
I tried it for a few months then had a relapse back into milk and omg milk is so much better and cheaper than oatly (I couldn’t stand the supermarket own brand oat milks)
I have vegan friends but they eat crap, there eating processed meat alternatives and vegan ready meals there diet is worse than mine!
With prices rising, people struggling these people are just dicks in my opinion. There going to need police/ security stood by them in every supermarket because I suspect some members of the public will just knock them to the ground if they stand in the way.
Ive already been warned that im going to be hassled outside of my work HQ by these people (working for supermarket in head office). Milk is the bestselling product for any supermarket, not everyone wants plant based alternatives, but its great that the option is there. Milk isn’t going away anytime soon.
Who the fuck do these people think they are? How the fuck dare anyone try and dictate what other people eat or drink. Don’t care what your cause is, especially during a cost of living crisis!
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It’s going to be a bunch of Hooray Henrys and trust fund kiddies enraged that people won’t do as they are told. Don’t fuck with people’s food in the middle of a cost of living crisis.
Because what everyone needs at this time is insane militant vegans disrupting our milk supply.
OK. Can they please explain to my autistic 4 year old why she can no longer have many of the foods she relies on? Switching her to soya milk isn’t something I can just do overnight. She’s tried it and said it’s slimy. I’ve tried it and she’s right. If we were going to switch to a milk alternative, we would have to have one that shares the same nutrition in terms of calcium, protein and calories. It would also have to have the same texture and taste as milk.
Nothing like that exists, so therefore I’m not going to stop buying milk.
Oh good, another bunch of wankers inflicting their minority opinion on the rest of us. We need more of those after all.
For fucks sake. Do we not have enough shit going on for you to try and interrupt my morning brew?
What are we doing? I mean honestly, what the fuck are we doing? Rolling around in the grime of a failed state arguing about milk production while like 7 specific people get rich?
Causing disruption inside private property not public land? Shouldn’t take long to get them gone.
Honestly as a vegan, now isn’t the time. People are struggling to eat.
These guys really need to read the room right now….
Nobody does a better job of turning people against veganism quite like radical vegans.
THIS IS NOT HOW YOU CHANGE PEOPLES MINDS.
It’s how you turn your audience AGAINST you.
It’s how you discredit your argument.
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They have a noble cause, but they’re fucking idiots.
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There are ways you could encourage people to switch to dairy free which would be far more effective than this.
So this lot won’t get run over by angry mothers trying to get their kids to school… they’ll be getting run over by angry grannies with their shopping trollies instead!!
Not the way esp at the moment, I’m going to be pretty prejudiced here and say the people taking part will be middle-class and up with little to know idea how the current food situation is affecting people.
As usual going after the average person especially if you are of a background that’s seen as privileged is not the way to win this cause.
I feel like protesting’s biggest issue atm is a massive oversaturation of causes and the inability to unite over one. We’ve had dozens of small environmental protester groups in the last couple years but none of them seem to have a concise message about what they want; some want insulation, some want renewable energy, some want plant based food prioritised, and their methods have done little to settle the divide on the issue. We’ve protested against lockdown restrictions, against vaccines, against HS2, the war in Ukraine (arguably the most united people have been on an issue in recent times), against the government and their parties or controversies, dozens of strikes protesting the cost of living crisis (and wages not going up to match) and loads of other small protests such as the removal of a controversial statue. Everyone you ask has a different answer to what our biggest problem is.
We can’t unite under a single issue and the government, corporations and the media know it, so they continue to play their games content that their pawns are still just scattered non-threatening inanimate game pieces.
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>The group also said it would take action at supermarkets in five UK cities on Saturday by blocking shoppers from reaching milk and dairy aisles.
Wouldn’t that just make the milk and dairy products go to waste? surely disruption at the source, instead of after the milking has already been done is a better approach?
> they demand the government supports a transition to a “plant-based food system” and rewild land used for animal pasture.
I don’t think the government says people can’t transition to plant-based food? Or do they mean, force plant-based food on everyone?
Shoppers should be allowed to give them a clout. Block a civilians way in a daft protest, they can give you a clout to get you to shift
I will still buy the same amount of milk regardless but possibly some milk will go past it’s sell by date due to disruptions which means we’ll need even more milk to cover the loss.
None of this will change the habits of millions of people to any noticeable degree as the past has shown, so maybe just stop pissing people off to get noticed, hasn’t gone too well for militant vegans or the eco numpties. Nobody supports those narcissistic, power hungry sad sacks because they’re annoying people, not educating.
Wow, I’m convinced that I must go 100% vegan right now as a result of this. I will never touch an animal product again.
Or maybe I’ll just think these people are nut-cases and carry on with my life as normal.
Imagine cutting a supply of high protein, nutrient rich, cheap calories during a cost of living crisis. This is literally how to kill people. The reason north western european people have the DNA changes required to drink milk is probably because it got us through a bottle neck starvation episode back in history. Most of the world cannot safely drink milk in vast quantities like brits and some other countries.
Maybe doing it in a Cost of living crisis is not a good idea. They are only going to piss off people, especially working class people.
I agree pasture-land would be best used for plant foods. But pissing off the average consumer and making milk go to waste isn’t the way to convince people to your cause. I’m totally convinced these people mostly do these things for themselves, not for their cause.
I don’t drink milk but maybe it’s not a great time to be messing with peoples food with the whole cost of living crisis going on right now. Food prices are going up as it is and people will be struggling to feed their families.
Can they not? Like I get it they want to force everyone to be like them, but if they keep this up these groups are just going to be hated.
People like dairy products, you don’t get to choose for them.
I don’t like dick heads who block roads and disrupt things but I’m not going out and stopping you.
Basically good for them but they’re dick heads.
Time to fight back my non vegan friends. Start emptying cartons of soya milk and switch off the fridge/freezers housing the vegan burgers and sausages 😉
What happens if you move the non-dairy milk to the centre of the dairy aisle so they have to let people past to get oat milk?
>The group also said it would take action at supermarkets in five UK cities on Saturday by blocking shoppers from reaching milk and dairy aisles.
Can security and/or the police not just remove them as this would be private property rather than a public highway?
Everyone is against animal cruelty until they have to confront their diet. Their methods might be annoying but let’s not act as if dairy is necessary, good for the environment or an industry with animal welfare at its heart. The evidence is freely available to read online, yet people don’t want to admit they support an unethical industry.
They’ll glue their hands to the floors in the milk isle?
its a really difficult issue.
Part of me wants to be like yeah help the cows drink oat milk, stop eating meat,
I tried it for a few months then had a relapse back into milk and omg milk is so much better and cheaper than oatly (I couldn’t stand the supermarket own brand oat milks)
I have vegan friends but they eat crap, there eating processed meat alternatives and vegan ready meals there diet is worse than mine!
With prices rising, people struggling these people are just dicks in my opinion. There going to need police/ security stood by them in every supermarket because I suspect some members of the public will just knock them to the ground if they stand in the way.
Ive already been warned that im going to be hassled outside of my work HQ by these people (working for supermarket in head office). Milk is the bestselling product for any supermarket, not everyone wants plant based alternatives, but its great that the option is there. Milk isn’t going away anytime soon.
Who the fuck do these people think they are? How the fuck dare anyone try and dictate what other people eat or drink. Don’t care what your cause is, especially during a cost of living crisis!
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It’s going to be a bunch of Hooray Henrys and trust fund kiddies enraged that people won’t do as they are told. Don’t fuck with people’s food in the middle of a cost of living crisis.
Because what everyone needs at this time is insane militant vegans disrupting our milk supply.
OK. Can they please explain to my autistic 4 year old why she can no longer have many of the foods she relies on? Switching her to soya milk isn’t something I can just do overnight. She’s tried it and said it’s slimy. I’ve tried it and she’s right. If we were going to switch to a milk alternative, we would have to have one that shares the same nutrition in terms of calcium, protein and calories. It would also have to have the same texture and taste as milk.
Nothing like that exists, so therefore I’m not going to stop buying milk.
Oh good, another bunch of wankers inflicting their minority opinion on the rest of us. We need more of those after all.
For fucks sake. Do we not have enough shit going on for you to try and interrupt my morning brew?
What are we doing? I mean honestly, what the fuck are we doing? Rolling around in the grime of a failed state arguing about milk production while like 7 specific people get rich?
Causing disruption inside private property not public land? Shouldn’t take long to get them gone.
Honestly as a vegan, now isn’t the time. People are struggling to eat.
These guys really need to read the room right now….
Nobody does a better job of turning people against veganism quite like radical vegans.
THIS IS NOT HOW YOU CHANGE PEOPLES MINDS.
It’s how you turn your audience AGAINST you.
It’s how you discredit your argument.
​
They have a noble cause, but they’re fucking idiots.
​
There are ways you could encourage people to switch to dairy free which would be far more effective than this.
So this lot won’t get run over by angry mothers trying to get their kids to school… they’ll be getting run over by angry grannies with their shopping trollies instead!!
Not the way esp at the moment, I’m going to be pretty prejudiced here and say the people taking part will be middle-class and up with little to know idea how the current food situation is affecting people.
As usual going after the average person especially if you are of a background that’s seen as privileged is not the way to win this cause.
I feel like protesting’s biggest issue atm is a massive oversaturation of causes and the inability to unite over one. We’ve had dozens of small environmental protester groups in the last couple years but none of them seem to have a concise message about what they want; some want insulation, some want renewable energy, some want plant based food prioritised, and their methods have done little to settle the divide on the issue. We’ve protested against lockdown restrictions, against vaccines, against HS2, the war in Ukraine (arguably the most united people have been on an issue in recent times), against the government and their parties or controversies, dozens of strikes protesting the cost of living crisis (and wages not going up to match) and loads of other small protests such as the removal of a controversial statue. Everyone you ask has a different answer to what our biggest problem is.
We can’t unite under a single issue and the government, corporations and the media know it, so they continue to play their games content that their pawns are still just scattered non-threatening inanimate game pieces.