Offshoot of Extinction Rebellion Calls for Vegan Revolution

Drawing on the latest UN climate science report, UK activists under the banner Animal Rebellion plan civil disobedience to promote plant-based farming and diets.

Vegan campaigners are to join arms with civil disobedience group Extinction Rebellion in a series of actions in the UK in October, in a move to promote plant-based diets.

Created in June, the group Animal Rebellion describes itself as “a mass volunteer movement that uses methods of non-violent civil disobedience to end the animal agriculture and fishing industries, halt mass extinction, and minimize the risk of climate breakdown and social collapse”.

It expects at least 10,000 people to block roads, stage sit-ins and volunteer for arrest in major UK cities, such as London and Manchester, during Extinction Rebellion’s next two-week protest, starting on 7 October.  Groups in Israel and Canada are set to take part in similar disruption.

The last action of Extinction Rebellion in April saw over 1,000 people arrested, after activists occupied and parked pink boats and trucks in London’s arteries, including Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge, and Parliament Square.

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