{"id":17346,"date":"2018-09-12T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/six-held-in-france-over-vegan-attacks-on-lille-shops\/52"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:25:52","slug":"six-held-in-france-over-vegan-attacks-on-lille-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17346","title":{"rendered":"Six held in France over vegan attacks on Lille shops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anti-meat graffiti in France\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/six-held-in-france-over-vegan-attacks-on-lille-shops-5b99300006cd4.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption There have been a spate of recent vegan activist incidents in France <\/p>\n<p>Six people have been held this week over a string of vegan activist attacks in the city of Lille, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Nine businesses, including a butcher, fishmonger, cheese shop and a McDonald&#8217;s, have had windows smashed and fake blood thrown on their walls in recent months. <\/p>\n<p>Activists also spray-painted the slogan &#8220;Stop Speciesism&#8221;, a term denouncing unethical treatment of other species.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the six detained people have since been or will now be released.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Lille prosecutor&#8217;s office set a court date in December for a detained 21-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/six-held-in-france-over-vegan-attacks-on-lille-shops-5b9930004a246.jpg\"> Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption The festival went ahead despite its initial cancellation <\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of French people eat meat, with vegans representing a tiny percentage of the population. <\/p>\n<p>According to a 2016 survey, only around 3% of French people are vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>But a number of recent incidents have sparked debate in a country that has a long culinary tradition of eating meat.<\/p>\n<p>In March, a vegan activist received a suspended prison sentence for a Facebook post saying the killing of a butcher by an Islamist militant was &#8220;justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The French Federation of Butchers wrote to the government asking for protection against militant vegans, saying they aimed to &#8220;impose on the immense majority of people their lifestyle, or even their ideology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The French government this year has introduced new regulations that ban vegetable-based food products in France from using words like &#8220;steak&#8221; and &#8220;sausage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>You may also be interested in:<\/h2>\n<p> How a YouTube beef shook the vegan world &#8216;Vegans call me murderer and rapist&#8217; The dad who feeds his son burgers almost every day<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption There have been a spate of recent vegan activist incidents in France Six people have been held this week over a string of vegan activist attacks in the city of Lille, officials said. Nine businesses, including a butcher, fishmonger, cheese shop and a McDonald&#8217;s, have had windows smashed and fake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7985],"class_list":["post-17346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-six-held-in-france-over-vegan-attacks-on-lille-shops-bbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}