The Local Butcher Shop,a small commerce focused on sustainable meat, says deal struck in order to end months of protest amounts to ‘ethical extortion’
Feet away from the butchers carving pork loins and beef shanks, or the owners of a California meat shop absorb installed a peculiar sign in their window: “ATTENTION: Animals’ lives are their accurate. Killing them is violent and unjust,no matter how it’s done.” The odd poster seeming to discourage customers from buying their meats is the result of a months-long dispute between the owners of the Local Butcher Shop – which sells “locally sourced, sustainably raised” meat – and animal rights activists who absorb staged more than a dozen loud and gruesome protests external the family-owned commerce in Berkeley. Related: Should we end keeping pets? Why more and more ethicists say yes I don’t understand why activists would pick on a mom-and-pop shop rather than factories and meatpackers Related: Famous California vegan restaurateurs under fire over revelation they eat meat Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com