Animal Rebellion

Animal Rebellion is an animal and climate justice movement with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action towards a plant-based food system. Their justification for the introduction of such a system is the impact of animal agriculture on climate change, species extinction and ecosystem breakdown. It has around 100 organisers and was founded in June 2019 by 12 people, including Daniel Kidby of Animal Think Tank and Dr Alex Lockwood of the University of Sunderland.[1][2]

Animal Rebellion
Motto"Rebel for all life"
FormationJune 2019 (2019-06)
Founded atLondon
PurposeClimate change mitigation, plant-based food system,
HeadquartersLondon
AffiliationsExtinction Rebellion
Volunteers
100 organisers
Websiteanimalrebellion.org

Animal Rebellion was established in London and is associated with Extinction Rebellion. According to Animal Rebellion's website, its demands are the same as the demands of Extinction Rebellion.

Protests

From 7 October 2019 to 19 October, Animal Rebellion organised a wave of civil disobedience in London, with groups holding protests in other places such as Berlin. Animal Rebellion protested in front of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture,[3] at Smithfield meat market,[4][5] the largest UK meat market, and Billingsgate Fish Market,[6] and at an abattoir in Farnborough, Hampshire, leading to several dozen arrests for obstruction of traffic and "obstruction or disruption of a person engaged in lawful activity".[6][7] They reported that the abattoir protest was to highlight the role the farming industry plays in the climate crisis, as well as animal welfare issues and the conditions for abattoir workers.[8]

References
  1. Partos, Hannah (2019-09-15). "How Sunday lunch at nan's led to a vegan's battle against the climate crisis". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  2. "Alex Lockwood". University of Sunderland. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  3. "Klimaaktivisten blockieren Potsdamer Platz und Großen Stern". www.rbb24.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  4. Francis, Sam (2019-10-08). "Climate activists blockade Smithfield meat market". BBC. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  5. Taylor, Matthew (2019-08-16). "Animal Rebellion activists to blockade UK's biggest meat market". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  6. "Arrests after fish market protests". BBC News. 2019-10-12. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
  7. "Three charged over Animal Rebellion abattoir demo". BBC. 2019-10-17. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  8. "Charges dropped over Animal Rebellion protest". 2019-10-18. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
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