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Moment angry shopper smashes megaphone of vegan activists berating customers for buying Easter lamb (www.lbc.co.uk)

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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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[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] realconor@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

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)

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

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

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 46 points 5 days ago (12 children)

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.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 16 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Yep. Don't tell people how to live their lives.

[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

Think I will actually

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

unless you're telling them to live their life without megaphones

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 5 days ago

"live and let liv- wait a minute!"

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[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 20 points 5 days ago (21 children)

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.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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."

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Nah. If you're shouting at someone through a megaphone, you don't deserve that level of civility.

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[–] twice_hatch@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago

We're still right though

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Easter lamb? Did Jesus love young sheep as much as he liked chocolate eggs?

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

It's funny how the attacker has a super fat ass and the vegan is healthily skinny 😄 This is so cliché.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 5 days ago

Luv lamb. Ate megaphones.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Assholes all around.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No-one is gaining the moral high ground there.

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[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 5 days ago

Why can't this shit happen where I work? It would add some excitement to my boring job.

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