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'Radical vegans' strike fear into the hearts of French butchers
TheLocal.fr ^ | 28 September 2018 17:40 CEST+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 09/30/2018 4:54:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai

When the stone slabs crashed into her butcher’s shop window last week, Elisabeth Cure became the latest victim of “radical vegans” who are trying to force a change in eating habits in traditionally meat-loving France.

The attack in a quiet town of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Paris, took place at 3:00 am, startling Cure as she slept above the store.

As in other similar incidents around France over the last year, her tormentors left a tell-tale tag scrawled on the shopfront: “End the Repression”.

“That’s how I knew it was radical vegans,” she told AFP.

Incidents of vandalism and intimidation have reached such a level that the country’s butchers’ confederation, representing 18,000 businesses, sounded the alarm publicly in June and asked the government for protection.

“Since the start of the year, we’ve seen 17 butcher shop windows destroyed and dozens of acts of vandalism,” Jean-François Guihard, head of the CFBCT confederation, told AFP. “The state needs to take necessary steps,” he said, characterizing the campaign against meat producers as a “form of terrorism”. …

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TOPICS: Food; Local News; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: emmanuelmacron; europeanunion; france; macron; radicalveganism; vegans; waronterror

1 posted on 09/30/2018 4:54:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Peaceful leftists at it again.


2 posted on 09/30/2018 4:56:10 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Olog-hai

The overlords of the left, if they’re organizing anything, seem to be organizing the mass motivation to rise up and slaughter all leftists everywhere.


3 posted on 09/30/2018 4:56:54 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Olog-hai

More violent libs.


4 posted on 09/30/2018 4:58:32 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Olog-hai

Just like the original Vegan hero, Hitler.


5 posted on 09/30/2018 5:00:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

More guns. A lot of problems would go away if there were more guns in the hands of more people. What did Robert Heinlein say? An armed society is a polite society...


6 posted on 09/30/2018 5:00:30 PM PDT by DC Bound (REBEL NOIR: http://www.claytonlindemuth.com/solomon-bull/)
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To: Olog-hai

Leftists need to get their own planet!


7 posted on 09/30/2018 5:12:44 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Olog-hai

They know nobody has guns.


8 posted on 09/30/2018 5:28:09 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Olog-hai

THERE ARE THOSE OF WHO FEEL THAT CUCUMBERS AND RADISHES HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS WITH CHICKENS AND SNAILS.....


9 posted on 09/30/2018 6:00:29 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails overall.)
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To: Olog-hai

Can see where this is headed. Hint. Starts with “J”


10 posted on 09/30/2018 6:05:40 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

They wouldn’t like that if they knew there was another planet that wasn’t leftist.


11 posted on 09/30/2018 8:05:48 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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