{"id":38811,"date":"2025-04-21T16:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38811\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:58:11","slug":"moment-asda-shopper-smashes-vegans-megaphone-hurls-it-to-floor-stomps-off-during-protest-over-eating-lambs-at-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/38811\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Asda shopper SMASHES vegan&#8217;s megaphone, hurls it to floor &#038; stomps off during protest over eating lambs at Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS is the moment a fuming shopper smashed a vegan protestor\u2019s megaphone during a protest against lamb at Easter.<\/p>\n<p>The group held up screens showing footage of animal slaughter and spoke through a loud speaker inside an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/asda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asda<\/a> branch in Canterbury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/kent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man taking a megaphone from a woman during an animal rights protest in a supermarket.\" height=\"875\" width=\"491\" data-credit=\"Ella Wild\/Triangle News\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trianglenews-co-uk-emily-hall-988792376.jpg\" data-caption=\"An animal rights protestor had her megaphone pulled out of her hand\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trianglenews-co-uk-emily-hall-988792376.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>An animal rights protestor had her megaphone pulled out of her handCredit: Ella Wild\/Triangle News<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Animal rights protesters demonstrating in an Asda supermarket.\" height=\"718\" width=\"404\" data-credit=\"Ella Wild\/Triangle News\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trianglenews-co-uk-emily-hall-988792430.jpg\" data-caption=\"Ella Wild uploaded the video to her Facebook page\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/trianglenews-co-uk-emily-hall-988792430.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Ella Wild uploaded the video to her Facebook pageCredit: Ella Wild\/Triangle News<\/p>\n<p>But one man saw red as he grabbed the woman\u2019s loud hailer and hurled it to the floor before stomping off.<\/p>\n<p>While some said the group were in the wrong for being inside the store, others described the man as a \u201cstereotypical meat headed, meat eating man-atrocity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protester Ella Wild uploaded the video to her Facebook page, saying \u201can angry man\u201d had destroyed her megaphone.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from inside the store shows Ella speaking about how<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/34478245\/urgent-pet-warning-toxic-easter-treats-how-to-avoid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> animals are celebrated at Easter<\/a> &#8211; yet also eaten.<\/p>\n<p>The man then grabs her megaphone, knocking her to the side before he smashes it to pieces on the floor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police<\/a> then arrive as the protestors remonstrate with store staff.<\/p>\n<p>Many who saw the footage said the man was in the wrong but insist the protestors shouldn&#8217;t have been in the shop in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter said: \u201cI don&#8217;t agree with the man breaking the megaphone&#8230; but the staff should have kicked the protesters out because a megaphone in a store about what people eat is just ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another added: \u201cNot needed in a store in my eyes,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should have been kicked out the moment you stepped in the store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We must tax all meat to force Brits into vegan lifestyle, Labour donor claims in fiery Never Mind the Ballots clash<\/p>\n<p>Others rallied behind Ella calling the man &#8220;pathetic&#8221; and a &#8220;wimp&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One said: \u201cBig brave bloke goes for girl with megaphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe standard of what passes for a man these days is just effing pathetic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another added: \u201cPretty much sums up a stereotypical meat headed, meat eating man-atrocity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But others said he had been provoked.<\/p>\n<p>One commenter said: &#8220;You\u2019re using a megaphone to cause a loud disturbance in order to \u2018raise awareness about animal cruelty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m vegetarian and I am proud to be, that wouldn\u2019t cause me to try and turn others away from their decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another added: \u201cCausing disruption is not going to help your cause, probably the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police and Asda have been approached for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIS is the moment a fuming shopper smashed a vegan protestor\u2019s megaphone during a protest against lamb at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[933,486,188,938,600,495,12,529,820,182,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-38811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-asda","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-easter-2025","13":"tag-facebook","14":"tag-kent","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-section-newsuk-news","18":"tag-social-media","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114377018835471218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}