Animal rights demonstrators have been spotted climbing a Government building this morning demanding a nationwide shift to a plant-based diet.
Protesters from Animal Rebellion were pictured scaling the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) headquarters in Westminster.
The building in Marsham Street is also shared with the Home Office. The group tweeted this morning that it will ‘take action until the government defunds meat and subsidises a plant-based transition’.
It added: ‘meat and dairy is one of the leading producers of greenhouse gases and causes 90% of Amazon deforestation.
‘World leaders at cannot talk about meeting the Paris Climate targets and securing global net zero without addressing that our food system is destroying our planet.’
Protesters climbed the building in the early hours of this morning and unveiled a banner saying: ‘COP26: Invest in a Plant-Based Future’.
Animal Rebellion says it intends to remain on the building, suspended in hammocks, until UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledges to cut all taxpayer support for animal agriculture.
Demonstrators also want him to urge all world leaders to do the same when they attend the COP26 UN climate change summit in Glasgow later this week.
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