Some masculine toxicity needed.
Via Daily Mail:
Vegans have targeted a self-proclaimed ‘ethical’ grocery store, calling its claim to sell ‘happy meat’ false advertising.
Activists belonging to Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) stormed HISBE sustainable food shop in Brighton, East Sussex, warning shoppers not to be ‘gullible’.
The store says it works with farms where animals are treated with care and respect, only selling locally sourced and free range produce. Its name stands for ‘How It Should Be’.
But protesters stormed the shop with megaphones to brand the business ‘unethical’, which owner Ruth Anslow said was ‘completely false’.
She says that she even allowed the demonstration to take part in the store, only for protesters to plaster anti-meat messages on her counters.
‘On one hand you have HISBE Food – a social enterprise committed to enabling mainstream supermarket shoppers to buy good quality, real food, locally sourced and seasonal,’ she said.
‘We passionately oppose factory farming and encourage people to consume less, better quality meat. We are committed to ethics-led sourcing and, to us, this means we sell local and high-welfare meat, eggs and dairy products.
‘On the other hand you have these vegan activists, who think that it is morally wrong for HISBE to sell animal products, full stop.
‘To the vegan activists, slaughtering an animal for food is the same as murdering a person – it’s irrelevant to them how the animal lived its life if that life is ended prematurely.
‘We thoroughly disagree with this because of the vast difference between the living conditions on factory farms vs small high-welfare farms like ours.’
About 30 protesters lined the isles and stood outside holding signs with messages such as ‘local doesn’t mean ethical.’