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Three activists from Futuro Vegetal have broken into the MasterChef restaurant this Tuesday and have spilled tempera in its main hall to demand an end to agricultural subsidies and achieve a plant-based food system. The protest action, which the organizers describe as “peaceful”, began as diners began to enjoy the menu specially designed for Valentine’s Day. The activists have stained with red and black tempera the logo of the TV program, the floor and the empty tables while one of the participants demanded “urgent changes to avoid famines on a scale never seen before due to climate chaos”.
In addition, according to Futuro Vegetal, in a corner of the main hall, next to the clock, symbol of the TVE La 1 program, an activist placed several stickers with the message “772 days to avoid climate collapse” and thus vindicated the action of an activist of the French group Dernière Rénovation, who last June interrupted the semi-final of Roland Garrós with a T-shirt that said “we have 1028 days left”.
The Vegetal Future activists carried menus they had prepared themselves, accompanied by the sign ‘Plant-based menu’ and a heart. The organization calls for an end to subsidies to the livestock industry and for that money to be used to undertake an agri-food transition to a plant-based ecological system.
“The current industrialized agri-food system is expanding at the cost of the destruction of ecosystems that regulate the global climate. What are we going to eat when the damage is irreparable?” the group says. In addition, the association has announced that it will not cease its protests until it manages to end the subsidies to livestock farming and that these will escalate in intensity in the coming months.
Specifically, they have specified that during the coming spring they will carry out a daily disruption campaign in Madrid for which they have almost a hundred activists who are willing to be arrested. “We wonder how far this government is willing to go to defend the interests of the meat industry,” said one of its activists.
