Animal rights campaigners staged a sit-in protest at a Bristol steakhouse tonight. Nine supporters of Animal Rising targeted The Cow & Sow in Queen Square this evening.
Its supporters were photographed occupying tables reserved for customers and holding placards showing conditions inside UK farms alongside alternative imagined futures of a world free from animal farming.
This Bristol action mirrored similar high-end restaurant sit-ins happening tonight in cities across the UK, including Glasgow and London.
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Daniel Juniper, 28, early years practitioner, said: “We are supporting the Animal Rising activists who yesterday occupied Grange Dairy Farm in Dorset, where they found nearly 1,000 calves who had been separated from their mothers, some only weeks old.
"No animal deserves to be torn away from their mother and no animal deserves to be turned into a sensory pleasure for other animals.
"So we are today disrupting The Cow & Sow in Bristol - a steakhouse with an extensive selection of meat. In a time where the public opinion is changing about how we view animals, this type of restaurant is out-dated and destructive. So I and eight other supporters of Animal Rising are here to disrupt their Saturday night service. To sound the alarm and call for change. There is an alternative and it is kinder and loving.”
The day before, on Friday May 19, 30 supporters from Animal Rising visited and sat down alongside the 1,000 calves penned in at a farm in Dorset as part of a protest action. One of the placards held by the group at the restaurant shows a picture taken from that protest.
Animal Rising is a social movement to create a new relationship with all beings and give us a chance for a safe ecological future. The group primarily calls for the transition to a safe and secure plant-based food system, alongside a mass rewilding programme.
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