A UK animal rights group has poured milk on the floors of upmarket stores across the country on Saturday (local time) as they call for a "plant-based food system".
Protesters from Animal Rebellion - an offshoot of the Extinction Rebellion group - co-ordinated their protest in stores like Harrods, Waitrose, Whole Foods and Marks and Spencer in London, Manchester, Norwich and Edinburgh just before 12pm on Saturday.
The Animal Rebellion protesters have dubbed their demonstrations against animal products as "milk pours".
Footage shows protesters pouring milk, which was taken from the shelves of the store, onto the display in Harrods' food hall in Knightsbridge in London.
Another group of protesters, from Animal Rebellion, was filmed emptying milk from bottles onto the floor and across a table laden with cheese in Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly.
In another video at Marks and Spencers in Manchester, a man is heard telling the protesters, "Plant-based future? Take your shoes off then, they're not plant-based."
Animal Rebellion said it is calling for a plant-based future and highlighting the need to support farmers in transitioning to a sustainable plant-based food system.
"Supporters of Animal Rebellion are back acting because (Prime Minister) Liz Truss and Ranil Jayawardena (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) are again deciding to ignore calls to start building a better future," Skylar Sharples, an international development graduate from Bristol and one of the protesters at Harrods, said, according to the UK's Daily Mail.
“A plant-based future would see a beautiful world for us all, thriving with nature and life. The steps to properly support farmers in this transition need to begin now.”
This latest protest comes a week after Animal Rebellion protesters poured milk over two high-end London department stores in protest against dairy products.
They also poured red paint inside Farlows, a hunting and fishing shop in London, and doused paint on the windows of William Evans, a shooting supply shop nearby.
Separately, members of the public clashed with protesters from climate campaign group Just Stop Oil after activists blocked a major road in east London on Saturday.
Just before 12pm, around 29 protesters blocked Shoreditch High Street in London, with some demonstrators glueing themselves to the road.
Police later confirmed 26 people were arrested for wilful obstruction of the highway, according to the Standard UK.
It comes after two protesters from the same climate group splattered tomato soup on a van Gogh painting in London.
Footage shows two people wearing Just Stop Oil T-shirts opening cans of Heinz tomato soup and spattering it on van Gogh's Sunflowers (1888) before gluing themselves to the wall.
