BY ALEXIA JAMES
Terrorism involves violence or the threat of violence for political or ideological reasons, causing fear and disruption. While Animal Rising’s tactics are primarily disruptive, focusing on non-violent protests, some of their actions have caused significant disruption and damage and their civil disobedience methods have frequently resulted in its members being arrested. Their methods include graffiti, destruction of property, blockading and preventing food distribution, trespassing onto livestock industry premises, and blockading streets. The targets of their actions have included dairy and other livestock companies, horse racing courses, the British royal family, government offices, supermarkets, and restaurants. They have disrupted major sporting events, inconveniencing the public, and their protests have resulted in property damage, which some consider a form of violence. Critics argue that their actions are intended to cause fear and intimidation, aiming to force change through pressure yet farmers have reported suffering from PTSD due to Animal Rising’s attacks on their vehicles and premises. Terrorism by another name?
In May last year, three Animal Rising protesters were charged over stealing King Charles’ sheep from his royal Sandringham Estate. Sarah Foy, 23, Rose Patterson, 34, and Rosa Sharkey, 23 were charged with theft, three counts of causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal and three of failing to record the movement of an animal, according to police.
Where do Animal Rising get their ‘useful idiots’ from? Their Sarahs, Roses and Rosas?
Let me ask the question more politely …
How would you feel if your son or daughter told you they were heading off to a camp at the ‘Plant-based university’ and that it only cost a tenner?
You’d ask what the plant-based university was, right? You’d Google them. You might look for feedback on their camps on social media:
Happy, smiling kids, right?
You’d hear that the plant-based university was set up as ‘an international grassroots student campaign calling for universities to transition in a just and sustainable way to 100% plant-based catering. This institutional transition significantly limits the university’s own contribution to the climate and nature crises, and it shifts public opinion in favour of a fully plant-based food system.’
Weird but hardly sinister, right?
Maybe you’d cough up the £10.
This is what you’d then see pop up on screen:
Welcome to Animal Rising’s terror training camps.
Wise advice: DO NOT let your Sarah, Rose or Rosa go anywhere near the plant-based university. Unless you want them to fast become unemployable and to spend their best years in jail.