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Vegan activists target leather shops and a high-end clothing store in latest protest

They stormed the city chanting slogans including 'wear you own skin', and 'compassion over fashion' in a bid to 'disrupt speciesism'.

AMIE GORDON: ‘Vegans clashed with shop workers as they staged a furious protest targeting leather and clothing stores. Members of the group Direct Action Everywhere stormed around Brighton, East Sussex, in their latest demonstration, holding aloft banners and chanting into megaphones… The group filmed their demonstration across Brighton, with footage showing them outside shops including Artemis, a ‘bohemian’ store which sells sheepskin goods. They stormed the city chanting slogans including ‘wear you own skin,’ and ‘ compassion over fashion’ in a bid to ‘disrupt speciesism’…

A spokesman for Sussex Police said officers were in attendance to assist with crowd control at the protest but no arrests were made… Last month 18 DxE activists targeted the seaside town’s Waitrose, holding plates covered in blood and held placards saying: ‘Humane murder is a lie’ in the supermarket’s Brighton store where they told shoppers: ‘You can’t shop in peace when you’re buying death’. They also raided the Touro steak house in Brighton to play animal slaughter noises to diners’. SOURCE…

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