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Protestors have blockaded four major distribution centres which supply around 1,300 McDonald\u2019s restaurantsMcDonald\u2019s distribution centres which supply around 1,300 restaurants have been blockaded by animal rights protestors demanding the chain goes vegan.
\nAround 50,000 members of Animal Rebellion have descended on four of the fast food giant\u2019s major sites in a bid to persuade it to introduce a fully plant-based menu by 2025.
\nMembers of the volunteer movement say they intend to cause \u2018significant disruption\u2019 by remaining at the centres in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood in Greater Manchester.
\nThe group said on Twitter this morning how they were waiting for McDonald\u2019s bosses to talk to them \u2013 and warned the blockade would continue all day if necessary.
\nProtestors are using trucks and bamboo structures to prevent lorries leaving the sites.
\nAnimal rebellion spokesperson, James Ozden, told how the action aims to call out the animal agriculture industry for their contribution to the global climate crisis.
\n\u2018The meat and dairy industry is destroying our planet: causing huge amounts of rainforest deforestation, emitting immense quantities of greenhouse gases and killing billions of animals each year,\u2019 Mr Ozden said.
\n\u2018The only sustainable and realistic way to feed ten billion people is with a plant-based food system.<\/p>\n
Animal Rebellion activists have blockaded four distribution centres which supply 1,300 restaurants (Picture: Twitter\/Animal Rebellion)<\/p>\n
Protestors want McDonald\u2019s to offer a fully plant-based menu by 2025 (Picture: Twitter\/Animal Rebellion)<\/p>\n
Activists say eating huge amounts of meat is \u2018unsustainable\u2019 (Picture: Twitter\/Animal Rebellion)\u2018Organic, free-range and \u2018sustainable\u2019 animal-based options simply aren\u2019t good enough,\u2019 Mr Ozden added.
\nThe group tweeted this morning: \u2018There\u2019s no McCafe on a dead planet,\u2019 calling on people to \u2018act now\u2019.
\nOne protestor at the Coventry blockade described McDonald\u2019s actions as \u2018horrendous\u2019. \u2018 <\/p>\n
UPDATE: COVENTRY BLOCKADE REBEL.\u201cThis feels like absolutely the right thing to do. We\u2019re in the middle of a climate and ecological emergency but we\u2019re eating huge amounts of meat. It\u2019s unsustainable.\u201d Well said! \u00f0\u009f\u0099\u008f\u00f0\u009f\u0092\u009a\u00f0\u009f\u008c\u008d\u00f0\u009f\u0090\u00ae@McDonaldsUK we\u2019re waiting for your reply. #plantbased pic.twitter.com\/uxmkplOCjm\u2014 Animal Rebellion (@RebelsAnimal) May 22, 2021<\/p>\n
An Animal Rebellion protester dressed as Ronald McDonald in front of protesters suspended from a bamboo structure outside a distribution site in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire (Picture: PA)In a video posted on the Animal Rebellion twitter feed this morning, they said: \u2018I\u2019m locked on outside the McDonald\u2019s distribution centre in Coventry, and it feels like the absolute right thing to do, I\u2019m absolutely thrilled that we\u2019ve managed to do this today, because what\u2019s going at the moment, what McDonald\u2019s are doing, is absolutely horrendous.
\n\u2018We\u2019re in the middle of a climate and ecological emergency and we\u2019re still consuming huge quantities of meat on a scale that is just not sustainable for our plant. \u00a0
\n\u2018We need a diet that is plant[-based and not reliant on industrial farming, not reliant on the suffering of animals and the exploitation of workers.\u2019
\nMetro.co.uk has contacted McDonald\u2019s for comment.
\nGet in touch with our news team by emailing us at\u00a0webnews@metro.co.uk.For more stories like this,\u00a0check our news page.<\/p>\n
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