The angry man can be seen confronting the vegan campaigners, who held up screens showing animal slaughter and used the megaphones to get their point across to shoppers.
One man took direct action against the protesters, grabbing a loudhailer from an activist named Ella Wild and breaking it on the ground before walking away.
Ms Wild posted a video of the incident on her Instagram, calling the shopper who retaliated “an angry customer”.
Most of the commenters sided with the shopper, with one saying: “Good man glad someone done it”.
Retail workers aren’t paid enough to deal with some self important asshole who thinks that screaming at people through a megaphone is their right.
Protest the horrible meat industry by making their lives hell, don’t go after the consumer go after the source ffs, but that would mean actually putting in effort to your cause, which these megaphone blasting people don’t want to do.
These people are why us non vegans have an issue with vegans, most of you are chill people enjoying your life, but these pricks make you lot look insane and then you defend them because you agree with their message, but while you defend their message, you also defend their actions!
Start holding these people accountable for making the rest of you look bad, I know most of you vegans are good people, you don’t deserve to be made to look like idiots.
Agreed, in general. As someone who has worked retail, I’d just ask them to leave once and then call the police. There’s no need to mediate this situation.
Yeah, if one were really going to support militant action against the meat industry, it should be way higher up the chain where the decision makers and infrastructure are. There are a lot of bigger consequences to doing that, which is why timid people usually just harass consumers.
Also, I’m not a vegan. I don’t advocate for harassing people that don’t share my ideology, either. I’m just opposed to vigilante “justice.”
Also, I’m not a vegan.
Yeah I thought you’d pick me up on that phrasing, I was using the more general version of you, talking to vegans as a whole and not the you for you specifically lol.
I think people have just had enough of these loud people and the cops are obviously not doing anything and trespassing these people doesn’t work, look at that Aussie chick who keeps getting banned from shops for her horrible style of protesting, but she keeps on going back.
Sometimes these people need to learn the hard way by their own choices and sometimes that comes in the form of a pissed off customer ripping a megaphone out of their hands.
Is it the right thing to do legally? Probably not, but it put a stop to their harrassment of others, they just got upset that they actually had to face some form of consequence for their actions.
Sorry, I wasn’t trying to be pedantic. I really thought you were stating that I was a vegan who was arbitrarily taking the side of another vegan. I retract that, for whatever that’s worth.
I agree that repeat offenders need to see some real consequences. It’s not okay to harass other people.
I just feel like learning the hard way needs to be handcuffs, court dates, and then bars. If the government doesn’t step up, yeah, citizens will start taking things into their own hands, which comes with a lot of risks, especially when people disagree on what’s considered acceptable behavior. It’s only a matter of time before more significant violence occurs.
Retail workers aren’t paid enough to deal with some self important asshole who thinks that screaming at people through a megaphone is their right.
That’s what the security guard is there for.
If your stores lucky enough to have one, mine doesn’t, so we have to deal with this type of shit.
Really? I haven’t been to a supermarket without one in years. Perhaps it’s a Liverpool thing.
Liverpool. Contrary to popular belief, there are quite a few thieves about.
It’s always great when people who aren’t trying to change things explain to us (vegans, environmentalists, feminists etc.) that we do not protest the right way ™ and that we don’t have the correct targets/methods.
Usually this is a byproduct of people not wanting to be bothered changing anything and pointing the finger towards other actors:
While I agree that only going after end-of-chain customers is unlikely to create at-scale change in the meat rape, torture and murder industry, it still has some effects.
Also these actions are a good way to build a community sentiment for the people included and incrementally go after other types of action.
For example, in the Extinction Rebellion movement, lots of activists started with legal protests, then illegal protests and road blocking and eventually a few of them built up to direct action against carbon-emitting industrial sites.
You also have to understand that the risk level is not the same when you go after customers and when you go after the industries.
Retail workers aren’t paid enough to deal with some self important asshole who thinks that screaming at people through a megaphone is their right.
They aren’t paid enough, period. I only hope that the activists only went after the customers and not the workers (which seems to be the case here, otherwise the article would probably have mentionned it).
Protest the horrible meat industry by making their lives hell, don’t go after the consumer go after the source ffs, but that would mean actually putting in effort to your cause, which these megaphone blasting people don’t want to do.
See higher. Also, as a general principle, fuck your opinion of what it means to put effort in a cause. Being in a place where most people dislike/hate your cause in a world where other activists have been assaulted and injured by assholes is already a fucking effort.
These people are why us non vegans have an issue with vegans, most of you are chill people enjoying your life, but these pricks make you lot look insane and then you defend them because you agree with their message, but while you defend their message, you also defend their actions!
Nah, be honest at some point.
We vegans are not chill people enjoying out lives, we are decent people trying to function in a dystopian world where the industrial mass murder of hundreds of billions of sentient beings every year is considered normal in the name of culture and/or pleasure.
The root of non-vegan opposition is the same as the root of big-car-lovers and masculinists opposition: acknowledging the truth would be too hard because it would mean acknowledging how much suffering you have caused. And it’s not entirely your fault, we’ve all been raised the same way, made to consider this was normal.
So any movement asking you to reconsider puts your brain in a very uncomfortable position, to which you react with rejection. And because no one wants to look like an asshole, you pick the group you deem most extreme and play the “I have no issue with vegans, but these vegans are a bit much and do a disservice to the cause” card - which is universally used to oppose societal progress whatever the topic.
Start holding these people accountable for making the rest of you look bad, I know most of you vegans are good people, you don’t deserve to be made to look like idiots.
Once again, thanks a lot for sharing your wisdom about a movement you are not part of. We all were really waiting for your input to decide how to treat our allies.
Edits: spelling
So I prove your point by expressing my disagreement and providing arguments? Effective tactics, I can’t argue with that.
If I made you feel better about yourself and more sure that you’re right I missed my target but you’re welcome anyway.
Have a nice one.
