Tipping out milk in London stores

Joy241

I wonder what other Gransnetters think about the incident in which two people poured out milk in Fortnum & Masons, and another store, to demonstrate their wish for everyone to convert to a vegan/plant-based diet.

I do not criticise their wish for everyone to become vegan, but I do wonder if they are using the right methods of persuasion.

Hi Joy241, I think I do criticise them for wishing everyone to become a vegan. I wish I could win the lottery but don't make it difficult for those that don't. Their behaviour is tantamount to bullying those that don't agree with them. In this case, the only folk that were hurt by this were the store providers, but it was, in my opinion, just like children throwing their toys out of the cot. As you can guess, I am not a vegetarian nor a vegan but I don't protest about vegetarians or vegans not eating meat because its their choice. No matter how many protests they make, they will never change my mind. I will continue to eat meat. I do however only have soya milk simply because I prefer it and not for any commercial or climate change reasons. I just wish folk would let folk live their lives they want (within the law).

They've now thrown tomato soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers in The National Gallery.

I remember the young vegan activist in Australia who broke down the fences so that dingoes got in and mauled a farmer's animals, suffering long lingering deaths. She then poured blood? over herself and filmed herself in her car dramatically screaming and crying, saying the farmer had attacked her (he hadn't).
Animal lover? I think not.

Some really do not draw people to their cause, do they!

How about some positivity instead?

Mollygo I absolutely agree with you. On the processed food they eat. I accidentally bought a no-duck hoisin wrap a couple of weeks ago in Sainsbury's, in mistake for the original. The first bite of hoisin flavoured slimy mush inside informed me what a dreadful mistake I had made.

Siptil99
All I meant was that if their belief is really that they think the world would be a better place if everyone were to become vegan, then who am I to criticise? Having said that, I think a bit of research into the processes used to make some vegan foods would make them change their minds.

Some little children have parents that can't afford milk and cereal so go to school hungry. And these idiots are throwing it away.
Nobody should be pressured to eat a certain diet unless its for medical reasons. People should be free to choose without being hounded by those that can obviously afford to waste it.
They should get an automatic prison sentence of 1 year for criminal damage first offence as should those sitting in the road.