Three ‘Futuro Vegetal’ activists chained themselves together and threw fake blood on the floor of the Carrefour supermarket in Añaza in Tenerife on Saturday, then wrote messages in it protesting against the effects of the meat industry on climate change which, they claim, is being hidden by large corporations.
This is the first protest or action organized this year by ‘Futuro Vegetal’, which is a movement of "civil disobedience and direct action" against the climate crisis we are all facing, as highlighted on their social media and communication channels.
The group claims that "Livestock are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the entire global transport sector combined." They also referred to the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which warns that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees will be "impossible without a rapid and deep reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors”.
“We need drastic measures against the Climate crisis and neither the institutions nor the corporations are taking them. We have to be the ones to say #ENOUGH”, concludes their message.
In December, four Futuro Vegetal activists went topless and smeared fake blood over themselves in El Corte Ingles in Barcelona to protest against Campofrio’s Christmas campaign. Days before, other members of the group sprayed part of Cortylandia, in Madrid, with paint demanding that "the promotion of large-scale consumption systems be stopped."
