Animal Rights Activists Scale Government Building To Demand Plant-Based Future

Animal rights activists climbed the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs building to demand the UK government move away from animal agriculture due to its links to animal suffering and pandemics. They called for subsidies to incentivize plant-based farming, recognition of the urgency of ending animal agriculture, and legislative reform to address the issue. The action comes in the midst of the UK's worst outbreak of avian flu, with intensive farming identified as an ideal environment for disease incubation.

Campaigners warn that around 85 percent of UK land animals are now factory farmed, with the rise of "mega farms" housing millions of animals at a time. They stress the need for immediate action to prevent future pandemics and catastrophic consequences for both animals and humans. The activists demand that the government address the evidence linking farms to pandemics and take proactive steps towards a plant-based future.