Save us from extreme vegans: Butchers
Butchers in France have urged the government to protect them against threats of violence and intimidation from extreme vegan campaigners.
The Confederation Française de la Boucherie, Boucherie-Charcuterie, Traiteurs (CFBCT) — a union representing butchers — sent a letter to Interior Minister Gerard Collomb asking for help.
“We count on your services and on the support of the entire government so that the physical, verbal and moral violence stops as soon as possible,” CFBCT head Jean-Francois Guihard wrote in the letter published on Facebook.
In recent months, several butcher shops across France have been vandalized and sprayed with fake blood. The butchers’ confederation accuses vegans of wanting “to impose their lifestyle on the immense majority of people.”
A vegan cheesemaker, named ‘Myriam,’ was found guilty over a Facebook post about a supermarket butcher who was killed in a March terror attack.
“You are shocked that a murderer is killed by a terrorist,” wrote the animal rights activist in a now-deleted post captured by the Daily Mail.
“Not me. I’ve got zero compassion for him, there’s justice in it.”
As meat sales decline, farmers’ groups have lobbied President Emmanuel Macron to prevent measures seen as anti-meat.
However, food producers continue to fight for changing the traditionally carnivorous country.
They proposed a once-aweek vegetarian meal in schools, which was dropped by parliament, and want to ban the use of steak, fillet, bacon, or sausage for nonmeat products.