Would you continue to buy your meat in this butcher shop?

[myhightechsec]

Some people have spines of jelly (or should I say agar). I'd never set foot in there again regardless of how much I might have enjoyed shopping there previously.

Here?s the warning sign a Berkeley butcher shop posted to appease ?vegan protesters? ? twitchy.com

 

[myhightechsec]

Here's another take with a little more info

Berkeley butcher shop hangs animal rights sign to stop weekly protests - Hot Air Hot Air

 

[actaeon277]

Well, they're in Berkeley. Probably had protesters EVERY day.

 

[actaeon277]

I bet the protest won't stop though. Give in, and it keeps going.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Probably, if the meat was good and the prices were right. I would rather ignore a sign than trip over hippies in the parking lot.

 

[femurphy77]

The problem with no longer shopping there in protest of this merchants lack of a spine is that if enough people follow this thought pattern he goes out of business thus accomplishing what the protesters meant to do in the first place. Personally I'd admonish them for their cowardice and if he responded in such a way as to run of his buying customers then so be it.

 

[halfmileharry]

Probably, if the meat was good and the prices were right. I would rather ignore a sign than trip over hippies in the parking lot.

Couldn't you just kick the SOBs out of the way instead of walking over them?
Even our cops got it rough.
I miss the good old days when nobody was trying to take your sack.

 

[hoosierdoc]

they need to move their shop to Indiana

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;a3ezyTXFgYM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ezyTXFgYM[/video]

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Couldn't you just kick the SOBs out of the way instead of walking over them?

You can, but patchouli oil and hippy tears is rough on your shine.

 

[jrogers]

I looked this up on reputable news sites, and apparently the OP's link isn't an outright lie. I'm almost vegan (honey is my exception), and this protest is baffling to me. Seems like a waste of effort.

That said, in some parallel universe where I owned the shop I'd shrug and post the sign because who cares? The people who whip themselves into a frenzy over it are as dumb as the people who think protesting a locally-owned independent butcher shop will have a measurable positive outcome with respect to their cause. Foolishness all around.

 

[myhightechsec]

I looked this up on reputable news sites, and apparently the OP's link isn't an outright lie.

Well, thank you for your vote of confidence that I don't post "outright lies".

 

[MCgrease08]

When protesters show up, turn the hose on them.

Although now that I think about it, it is California. They'd probably be fined for wasting water.

 

[jrogers]

Well, thank you for your vote of confidence that I don't post "outright lies".

It looks like clickbait, and there has been a great deal of actual fake news recently. Do you really fault me for not assuming that it is possible a poster on an internet forum was fooled?

When protesters show up, turn the hose on them.

Although now that I think about it, it is California. They'd probably be fined for wasting water.

Very enlightened response. Maybe release some dogs too? Anything to shut up those with whom we disagree. The marketplace of ideas is a sham.

 

[myhightechsec]

Anything to shut up those with whom we disagree

The unintended irony is strong in this one, eh

 

[myhightechsec]

It looks like clickbait, and there has been a great deal of actual fake news recently. Do you really fault me for not assuming that it is possible a poster on an internet forum was fooled?

Errrr... you did "assume" it.

 

[myhightechsec]

The problem with no longer shopping there in protest of this merchants lack of a spine is that if enough people follow this thought pattern he goes out of business thus accomplishing what the protesters meant to do in the first place. Personally I'd admonish them for their cowardice and if he responded in such a way as to run of his buying customers then so be it.

And giving in to the protesters is pretty much going to guarantee that he is going out of business also. Might as well be a man about it and choose the own form of your destruction. Or run the protesters off. There are ways to do it without resorting to violence or breaking the law.

 

[actaeon277]

It looks like clickbait, and there has been a great deal of actual fake news recently. Do you really fault me for not assuming that it is possible a poster on an internet forum was fooled?



Very enlightened response. Maybe release some dogs too? Anything to shut up those with whom we disagree. The marketplace of ideas is a sham.

They are trying to shut him down (the butcher).
They are not interested in an "exchange of ideas".
So, ya. Release the hounds.

 

[eldirector]

Where was it that had a BBQ in front of a vegan protest?

Sounds like a plan to me. Steaks, brats, some chicken wings.... Make sure the wind blows it all towards the hippies.

 

[actaeon277]

Where was it that had a BBQ in front of a vegan protest?

Sounds like a plan to me. Steaks, brats, some chicken wings.... Make sure the wind blows it all towards the hippies.

Do you mean at a "hunger strike"?
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/yale-hunger-strike-trolled-bbq/