Three individuals have been arrested after animal rights protesters scaled the Division for the Surroundings, Meals and Rural Affairs head workplace constructing in London to attract consideration to the hen flu disaster and intensive farming practices.
The Metropolitan Police stated they have been referred to as shortly earlier than 6.30am to experiences that two individuals had scaled the constructing on Marsham Road, Westminster, which additionally homes the Residence Workplace and the Division for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
The pair climbed the outer wall of the constructing earlier than unfurling an enormous 9 by 15-foot banner which learn: ‘Hen flu: our subsequent pandemic. Finish animal agriculture.’
Police stated two girls and a person have been held on suspicion of legal harm and inflicting a public nuisance.
Two animal rights activists climbed the outer wall of the DEFRA constructing earlier than unfurling an enormous 9 by 15-foot banner which learn: ‘Hen flu: our subsequent pandemic. Finish animal agriculture’
The Animal Justice Venture, which campaigns for an finish to animal farming, stated its members had carried out the protest to focus on the ‘catastrophic’ influence of hen flu being unfold by rooster sheds.
A spokesperson for the Animal Justice Venture stated: ‘We’re taking motion right now to strain the governmental physique liable for minimising the chance of animal-borne illnesses to take significant steps to cease hen flu.
‘They’ve declared the UK Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ), imposing extra stringent biosecurity measures, however this isn’t sufficient!
‘No quantity of security measures can negate the large half that cramming hundreds of animals into soiled sheds and slaughterhouses performs within the emergence and unfold of infectious illness, and up to now, the introduction of the AIPZ has not solved our hen flu disaster as deaths of harmless birds improve every day…
The Animal Justice Venture, which campaigns for an finish to animal farming, stated its members have been calling on Defra to forestall ‘an imminent hen flu pandemic’
‘We should finish animal agriculture not solely to save lots of people, however to forestall animal struggling as effectively.
Avian Influenza causes animals to undergo agonising deaths, struggling to breathe as they cross. Complete flocks will be decimated by outbreaks in simply a few days, with none veterinary consideration. Their deaths are recorded, then they’re forgotten, as they have been by no means seen as people within the first place.
‘However those that haven’t contracted hen flu nonetheless undergo enormously. Compelled to dwell in soiled, overcrowded sheds with tens to tons of of hundreds of different animals, they expertise painful illnesses, untreated accidents and fixed stress as an alternative, as their our bodies are exploited to satisfy client demand and generate revenue.’
