Portuguese activist in UK urges civil disobedience in Portugal for vegetarianism — DNOTICIAS.PT
A Portuguese activist detained after an environmental protest in London encouraged movements in Portugal to react to civil disobedience actions to pressure the government to promote a transition to a vegetarian society.
“I urge Portugal to think about non-violent civil disobedience and the effects it can have, we need to bring the voice of the people to the Prime Minister, António Costa, and everyone demands a future based on plants”, Sofia Pontes told the Lusa agency. .
The 26-year-old Portuguese starred in a British protest by the police of the ‘Animal Rebellion’ group, police, when pieces of bottles from another were published on the floor and shelves of Fort and Mason stores, two flagship stores of luxury milk store shelves.
‘Animal Rebellion’ advocates a transition to a plant-based food system, leaving the oceans and land now used by agriculture to be occupied by wildlife in order to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and halt climate change.
For Pontes, this is a matter of “social justice, it’s legal and animal”.
“As long as we continue to depend on livestock and fisheries, we can start to solve a current crisis”, we continue to depend on creased.
in Psychology, Sofia Pontes has lived in the United Kingdom since she was a child, where she moved from Madeira with her family.
It was during a festival for vegans last summer that the Portuguese joined ‘Animal Rebellion’, a group derived from the environmental movement ‘Extinction Rebellion’, and has since become more active, participating in events and protests.
It currently has no direct connections with Portuguese organizations, but is interested in building a bridge with the United Kingdom.
This week’s action on a part of the facade (in media panels in the press) (in 100,000 lbs protection panels) also has 100,000 lbs (100,000 lbs) for 100,000 lbs (100,000 lbs) protection.
Another potential consequence will be to lose resident status and be deported by the British authorities, although this is a measure applied to perpetrators of graves and repeat offenders.
Sofia Pontes admits that “this is a situation in which a person cannot choose to be”, but that “a small price to pay” for the cause she embraced.
“When” [a colaborar] with ‘Animal Rebellion’ was something that worries me a lot, but now I believe that the price of doing nothing is much greater than a sentence that any justice system can impose on me”, he replied to Lusa.
In the 11 days in London alone, the last 338 people involved in demonstrations and protests by the environmental groups ‘Just Stop Oil’ and ‘Animal Rebellion’ were arrested for blocking roads in buildings and businesses, revealed on Wednesday the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley.