Vegan Activists Block McDonald’s U.K. Burger Supplies in Protest

This cracked me up🤣🤣🤣

Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday fanned the flames in his feud with an animal rights group. After People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals put up in a billboard in southeast Oklahoma City calling the governor a "meathead," Stitt hosted a cookout under the billboard. PETA paid for the billboard after Stitt declared a week in March "Meat All Week" as a nod to Oklahoma's cattle and agriculture industries. On Wednesday, in between posing for photos in front of the critical billboard, Stitt tossed some hamburgers and ribeye steaks on the grill.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

Blocking a fast food joint from operating? Normally I'd say eh, it's fast food, who cares, but there's one VERY important takeaway here, and it's Don't Piss Off Us Lazy Vegetarians. We'll swing back to meat eaters so fast they'll have the spins from the cooking flurry.

Seriously, vegans on this site, this is NOT how you get allies. It's how you make yourselves less and less serious a movement to take. And how you get ridiculed as a movement of pissy losers.

Edit: Dammit with the submitting before I'm done...continuing

This kind of nuisance brat stuff doesn't spur anyone to back you, all being an asshole to people gets you is defiance. As me how I know this. Nah, don't ask, I'll tell -- because all this # does is make me WANT to go opposite of the groupie grain to rub it in and make a point, and I'm already partway to the meatless goal here. Way to # that up, smooth move ace, I'm not solo in this one.

This does not get anything accomplished. Change your tactics, a closed mouth can do you far more favors in the Long Game than you think. Learn how to do that and learn when to bide your time wisely before shoving a foot down the ol' orifice.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

No one has the right to tell me what to eat.

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

No one has the right to tell me what to eat.

No, in terms of free speech they can tell me everything and anything they want.

In realistic daily motions, all I'm going to do is laugh. And probably eat moar meat instead of less, just to be a bitch.

Don't worry folks.

That nice Mr Gates will soon have us all eating fake "meat" and all this is a total coincidence that he will in no way profit from in any way.

a reply to: Trueman

never tried that, heard it was delicious.

speaking of chili, my brother won a chili cook off where he works. funny thing about that, is he didn't make it from a recipe of his own. he used one my mom use to feed us when we were kids. it was Frenches Chili- O seasoning mix. with stewed diced tomato and green chilis and refried beans. she also had one where she used kidney beans and it was more like a soup but thicker that we'd put on rice with cheese.

not to hot or spicy, and doesn't burn twice if you catch my drift, but enough to let you know your eatin chili.
he didn't accept the prize told them that he just wanted to show them that you don't need all that BS for good chili.

hell i might make some, bake some taters, get some mexican blend cheese tonight for supper tonight.

a reply to: gortex

The whole corporatized food chain is a nightmare and tastes it. It's not just Meat, but the entire food chain plants included, guess it's OK for the militant Vegans to ignore that part?

In reality the jokes on the Vegans since so much of the hamburgers being dished up are TVP, a soy protein IIRC.
But let them go, you can't cure stupid.

It's a very valid point we need meat within reason for higher brain functioning. If Crazed rabid Vegans want to REALLY make a difference they would be forcing School districts to reinstate mandatory cooking classes ( Home Ec) so our kids could at least take food out of the big square thing, use the round things with handles on the smaller square thing an feed themselves actual food. Food they can combine from raw to edible product.

While there are a million things slowly destroying humans that we've decided are "improvements' , making sure we're uneducated in feeding ourselves properly is a biggie. I can't even believe I had to say that with food insecurity rampant an so many going hungry. I'd like to say it's strictly a "First World Problem" but as other societies get "technologied"
bothering to cook goes right out the window.

I'd rather pay more for better raised livestock than the cheap crappy tasting stuff available. I know the animals live in horror, but the actual taste is gone. Normally I'm not a fan of paying more for anything, but decent food isn't a luxury, it's a life necessity.

While I don't normally unasked recommend stuff Netflix has been amazing in providing food documentaries such as "Rotten" an a host of others for people to see the underside of our food chain.

a reply to: Caver78

While I don't normally unasked recommend stuff Netflix has been amazing in providing food documentaries such as "Rotten" an a host of others for people to see the underside of our food chain.

That is a good way to effect change , a decade or so ago British Celebrity chefs got together to make documentaries on where our food actually comes from and the torture factory farmed animals suffer , if nothing else it changed the attitude to battery farmed chicken eggs and made free range eggs the go to choice for many.

The more people there are in the world the bigger the problem gets so plant based food must have a part to play.

a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

Yea, overall a couple of soy boys chimping out doesn't really concern me about future food supplies.

This isn't even really anything new. Hippie activism has actually been low compared to the sixties and seventies.

Stopping people from eating meat is like trying to stop people from smoking pot. Ironically, both sides of the political spectrum think they have a say in either matter. Spoiler alert, you don't.

a reply to: gortex

I agree but the elephant in the room is that the Plant/Vegetable/Feed Grain food chains are just as bad as the Meat/Protein ones!

The answer usually given is "grow your own" which does help, but it's not a total solution.
Until consumers refuse to accept the dreck offered nothing's going to change, the other problem being you just can't dig your heels in an refuse to eat until things change.

While doing my own "baby-part" sourcing decent meal components also takes time & travel which is quite the PITA. The alternative is I can spend my week feeling like absolute crap cause I ate crap. If I had to do this for a family it'd be a full time job. So I completely understand most peoples frustration.

The budget constraints are very real as well, so it's off to the Chinese Wholesaler for Udon Noodles an fresh Veggies, sauce components, off in another direction for farm eggs, off miles the other way to the butcher for a couple of pieces of guaranteed free range meat from well raised critters and to two more farms for Veggies in season now that summers coming on. Plus I work, plus property maintenance.

At this point Utopia would mean a 10 minute bombing run into ONE PLACE with Meat, dairy, veggies, fruit that was
worth eating. BTW I'm not a special food-snowflake. After doing regular grocery shopping over time I had to toss so much food that tasted like crap or severely affected my job performance I got SO tired of being hungry an feeling like crap so had to make the leap to better sourcing. Plus a better use of my food budget dollar.

People who can't for whatever do this kind of idiocy have my total understanding. If feeding their family from the dollar store is what they have to do I completely "get it" I used to be that "Mom" back in the day.

Why do these people target MacDonalds anyway? Ah, yes. That's it. It's where poorer people go.

These activists are often well to do. They would not trash Posh Burgers, some other trendy place because that's where they all go when it's time to go home.

originally posted by: Nyiah

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: SleeperHasAwakened

No one has the right to tell me what to eat.

No, in terms of free speech they can tell me everything and anything they want.

In realistic daily motions, all I'm going to do is laugh. And probably eat moar meat instead of less, just to be a bitch.

I stand corrected.

No one has a right to determine what I eat.

a reply to: paraphi

Why do these people target MacDonalds anyway? Ah, yes. That's it. It's where poorer people go.

More like it's where people go to shut the kids up , poorer people included.

Activism is a good thing if it has achievable goals , expecting McDonald’s to go entirely plant based by 2025 is not an achievable goal.

Civil disobedience is our right , if we don't exercise it we will lose it.

Blame God for making tasty animals.

I hope Vegans never get control of this world. I will have to go live out in the woods with the deer if they do, but sooner or later the vegans will kill off all the deer because they are eating all of the vegetables the vegans eat.. Then I will be alone

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: paraphi

Why do these people target MacDonalds anyway? Ah, yes. That's it. It's where poorer people go.

More like it's where people go to shut the kids up , poorer people included.

Activism is a good thing if it has achievable goals , expecting McDonald’s to go entirely plant based by 2025 is not an achievable goal.

Civil disobedience is our right , if we don't exercise it we will lose it.

gortex...did you honestly just utter the term 'civil disobedience'?? In this thread!?

To remind you. This has nothing to do with government overreach, or social injustice, or economic inequity, or on and on and on.

This is about a bunch of wankers that happen to be vegans disrupting the operation of a private business that happens to provide (lousy) food service to the public, and that food service happens to include meat-based products.

I mean ????

o_O

Please expand on how you equate the pathetic floundering of meat Nazis as any kind of noble pursuit here?

It's very easy to be apathetic and indifferent and dismissive and even a bit amused because the target here is a crappy fast food chain, but. Civil disobedience? You went there?

Can I ask, does it any way/shape/form bother you that there are organizations on this Earth that are actually beginning to gain traction politically and socially, that are filled with people that have apparently taken on the mantle of food nannies to the public, and are seeking to strong-arm the public into cessation of eating meat? Furthermore the same "scientists" that rot the brains of these stooges are starting to hold sway over restaurateurs and even some politicians?

But civil disobedience?

I know you do enjoy playing the contrarian and devil's advocate here, but please, this is just all a little too much.

originally posted by: mtnshredder

This cracked me up🤣🤣🤣

Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday fanned the flames in his feud with an animal rights group. After People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals put up in a billboard in southeast Oklahoma City calling the governor a "meathead," Stitt hosted a cookout under the billboard. PETA paid for the billboard after Stitt declared a week in March "Meat All Week" as a nod to Oklahoma's cattle and agriculture industries. On Wednesday, in between posing for photos in front of the critical billboard, Stitt tossed some hamburgers and ribeye steaks on the grill.

LOVE it! A cookout under the "Me Ted" billboard. Genius!

"meathead" LOFL. That's all they got???

Maybe they had been binging on falafel, soy burgers and 80's movies before they thought up that billboard insult.

originally posted by: rickymouse
I hope Vegans never get control of this world. I will have to go live out in the woods with the deer if they do, but sooner or later the vegans will kill off all the deer because they are eating all of the vegetables the vegans eat.. Then I will be alone

No, you won't be out there all by yourself.

Some of us will be out there chasing the same game as you and also, vegans need population control and thinning the herd to maintain a healthy balance, just like the rest of the animal kingdom.



ETA

Nothing against peaceful vegans that choose to adopt such a diet for their own reasons and don't want to impose it on others forcefully. Got no quarrel with you all.

I don't think they'd need to expend much effort to poison habitual customers of McDonald's.