3mo ago

Moment angry shopper smashes megaphone of vegan activists berating customers for buying Easter lamb

www.lbc.co.uk

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".

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You walk into a shop with a megaphone and start taunting people through it, you deserve what you get, regardless of why you were doing it.
- Yep. Don't tell people how to live their lives.
  
  "live and let liv- wait a minute!"
  
  unless you're telling them to live their life without megaphones
  
  Think I will actually
  
  But that lifestyle contributes 15-20% of the entire planets GHG emissions. That lifestyle is selfishly ruining my planet.
  
  Yeah, unless their lives include murdering others.
  They lose their right to peace, when what they cause is anything but.
- Respectfully, I disagree. She deserved to be asked to leave. When she refused, she deserved to be arrested for trespassing and probably harassment, too. That guy deserves some charges as well.
  
  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.
  
  Nah. If you're shouting at someone through a megaphone, you don't deserve that level of civility.
- Ah yes the holy and sacred temple of the supermarket. Under no circumstance can there be protest here, especially not protesting mass murder and incarceration, because it might hurt the feefees of the most important and precious class: The Consumer.
- You pay people to murder animals so you can feast on their dead flesh. And you're only getting a megaphone warning. Seems like meat eaters deserve even worse.
  
  Ah yes. Don't kill anything with a face. Except meat eaters.
Assholes all around.
- No-one is gaining the moral high ground there.
  
  The guy doing the smashing seems to have it.
Luv lamb. Ate megaphones.
It's funny how the attacker has a super fat ass and the vegan is healthily skinny 😄 This is so cliché.
- You are mistaking him for Saint David.
Using a megaphone indoors in a store should considered assault. My child and spouse both have sensitive hearing, if someone was within a couple meters of them and shouted into a megaphone it would instantly reduce my child to tears and cause pain and distress, and my spouse would probably drop anything they were holding from the shock and pain of it.
- You sound like animals that are getting slaughtered. Except they are in even more pain and end up murdered.
  Maybe if people stop the murderous selfishness towards animals, people don't have to pick up a megaphone to educate you.
  
  So your solution is innocents being harmed is to harm more innocents. Nice.
I get what vegans are trying to do, I really do, but man are they tone deaf.
Pissing people off is not the way to get your point across, neither is blaring nin their ears with a megaphone.
Having said that, being violent against vegans also does not solve anything. I get the sentiment, but you're onlyaking yourself look like a shit bag in front of the whole world.
Vegans: find better ways
Why can't this shit happen where I work? It would add some excitement to my boring job.
easter lamb is fucking insane. you're celebrating the death of the lamb of god by eating one?? stick with ham
- When I used to go to mass, we'd be told we were eating the body of Jesus and drinking his blood. And they were not as delicious as lamb.
  
  Are you part of Jesus's vampire coven now?
We're still right though
grand, nobody needs to hear about your cause when they're trying to shop, they aren't all slaughterhouse proprietors (and most of them don't care about eating the same stuff humans have done for hundreds of thousands of years)
Carnists get so fucking mad when you point out that they're eating literal dead babies. Fucking snowflakes. You don't like being reminded you're eating the corpse of an adorable baby? Well, maybe you should stop doing it then, no one is forcing you to eat animals, you can literally just not do it
- I don't find sheep adorable. They're also quite smelly. Cats however, are super adorable. That's why I don't eat them. Sharks? Ugly af, right into the soup pot.
  Mushrooms are adorable though. You are a monster if you eat mushrooms.
- Have you considered it's your condescending tone and obnoxious tactics that annoy people? He certainly wasn't right to smash up the megaphone - but I'm willing to bet the "carnists" really do understand they're eating dead animals and literally don't care.
  
  Have you considered it's your condescending tone and obnoxious tactics that annoy people?
  It isn't. It doesn't matter how vegans act, carnists are annoyed about our very existence. You can pretend you're only annoyed at the "obnoxious" vegans, but I've seen enough carnist rage to know it doesn't matter how kindly a vegan tries to advocate for veganism, it won't work, and will very likely get the vegan yelled at. Seriously, look up Earthling Ed's YouTube channel, watch how patient and kind he is with the carnists he talks to, then think about the fact that this sweet, kind, gentle man has been punched in the face more than once by people angry that he's a vegan arguing for veganism.
  Also see your need to come set me straight two whole days after I made my comment. I'd forgotten about that thread and the comment I'd made in it, but you read it and just had to comment, an entire two days later.
  
  Ah yes, tone policing, the least snowflakey debate tactic.
I don't agree with her methods and I don't believe it's the correct way to get the point across.
Just keep in mind - one side is crying its heart out due to unbelievable cruelty while another side is simply annoyed that someone says something about requesting them to acknowledge the suffering they are causing simply because they want to eat what they want to eat whatever the cost may be because they believe they are entitled for it for some reason unknown to me.
The vast majority of them requires meat at much lower quantities in order to be healthy(saying lower so you won't attack me for saying not at all) but they still choose to consume for many other very selfish reasons.
A third asked: "So they are allowed to cause a disruption about something that affects his livelihood, but he isn't allowed to retaliate?"
What about disrupting the lambs life? These people just want eat children without thinking, good for her for speaking out.
Good man.
Fucken well deserved

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