Shoppers try to ram Animal Rising protesters with trolleys in Sainsbury’s meat aisle

If this was me I’d find it funny and just walk round the other isle, this is peak boomer, can’t be told no, have to have it their way.

That protest is going to do nothing to convince people to give up meat – idiots

Ram is certainty too strong of a word here, push might be a more accurate descriptor. He didn’t exactly walk backwards and get a run up.

If you want to protest the slaughter of animals, perhaps a slaughterhouse should be the place you go?

What did they think was going to happen. I’m all for peaceful protest but you can’t stand in people’s way and just expect them not to forcibly move you….

Maybe next time they won’t obstruct regular people just trying to get by.

Fafo

I once got pushed over in a supermarket for trying to put a bag of South African fruit in my trolley. I was pregnant at the time. Protests should be outside the stores. If farmers are breaking the law then report them. I expect to buy legally produced food

Good. Don’t stop normal people going about their day. Go and protest at the abattoirs and the head offices.

At first I was trying to understand why people would ram Animal Crossing protesters….

A line in the middle of an aisle with two entrances is hardly an effective blockade.

isnt it illegal to protest inside a private building? trespassing comes to mind

This is aggravated trespass, so any common man has lawful ability to use reasonable force in the circumstances to move them along

Why are sainsbury’s shoppers inside an M&S? Did they get lost?

Do the protesters know the animals are already dead?

These people should be advocating for less meat consumption by the average person. I don’t believe you will ever get an entire population to not eat meat but you can certainly convince them to consume less.

I’m going to be honest – I think “animal rights” veganism is a load of horseshit and I don’t appreciate this type of person.

HOWEVER.

Protests are SUPPOSED to be disruptive. They’re supposed to inconvenience the average person, to make you stop and pay attention to them. That’s the whole point. Yes, the cause is bloody obnoxious. Yes, there’s better ways to go about it. But it’s always “Those damn protestors” until it’s a cause that YOU care about. We need to maintain the right to protest, and the right to protest in ways that inconvenience the average person, because as soon as we get reduced to petitions and quietly standing around holding signs, damn close to anything can be done to us and we won’t be able to fight back. And in today’s political climate, we should be worried about that. I urge all of you to remember what the richest man in the world did this Monday. Twice. On stage. On a broadcast watched around the world. To thunderous applause.

Groups like this should do something different, these kinds of protests garner publicity but it’s all negative and makes them look a bit like pillocks. 

Maybe put some gorilla glue on a poster showing the horrible conditions in slaughter houses and stick them on freezers, social media campaigns or maybe doing something that annoys people with a public profile like an MP or the owner of Morrisons or something.

I’d put a bunch of egg cartons precariously balanced on the edge of the trolley and watch them all get covered

Where is a home shopper with their massive overweight trolleys when you need one.

I so would of opened a packet of ham and gone to town on it in front of them, then grabbed some precooked chicken legs, “oh god this flesh tastes so good, feeling it’s moistness slide down my throat, yum yum” Hannibal lecter would be proud.

Anyone fancy a lovely piece of grilled protestor instead?

Animal Rising promoting their protest on X. The irony.