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This is the moment butchers clashed with angry vegans protesting in front of a meat counter.

The activists, from the group Direct Action Yorkshire, can be seen stood in a line chanting at shoppers through a megaphone in a Sheffield shopping centre.

At one point a blind activist – wearing a 100% vegan T-shirt and carrying a white stick – falls to the floor in what appears to be a scuffle with a shopper off camera.

The man can be seen scrabbling around on the ground using his stick to guide him, as he tries to get back up.


Police have since closed an investigation into the incident after examining CCTV evidence.

A group of vegan protesters clashed with shoppers in Sheffield (Picture: DxE Yorkshire/Triangle News)

The protest, which took place on Saturday around 11am at Moor Market in Sheffield, saw angry members of the public closing in on the activists.



An elderly gentleman can be seen waving a promotional sale sign for sirloin steak at the protesters, while an unknown voice shouts: ‘Want to see my meat b****?’

One shopper says: ‘The state of you putting all these people out of a job. You are a disgrace.’

A protester with a megaphone continues delivering a speech ignoring the angry members of the public.

She shouts: ‘They love their children just like us. They are sentient beings just like us.

‘They deserve to be safe and free from harm just like us. They have a capacity to experience grief or joy just like us.

They staged a sit in outside the butchers (Picture: DxE Yorkshire/Triangle News)

‘So why make them suffer? They deserve to be happy and healthy just like us, just like our beloved pets. Why love one and not another?’

Another person shouts during the seven minute video ‘meat is not murder’, while the protester continues to shout that humans are stealing animals’ ‘flesh, bodily fluids, secretions and babies’.

The protest took place in front of Mick’s Grade A Meats but it is understood that staff from the butchers – which employs around six people – were not involved.

Protestor Belinda White, 48, said the group were left shaken by the reaction.

She added: ‘There’s a long strip of butchers at the Moor Market so it was a really good place to do a demonstration.

‘The whole point is to go to place that normalise abuse, promotion and sale of beings.’

Shoppers angrily shout at the protesters as they chant through a megaphone (Picture: DxE Yorkshire/Triangle News)

A South Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: ‘Officers received reports of an assault at The Moor Market in Sheffield. It was reported that a 53-year-old man was pushed to the floor by his backpack. The victim didn’t sustain any injuries.

‘Officers interviewed witnesses and reviewed CCTV footage in the surrounding area.

‘There was no evidence to support the investigation, which has now been closed.’

The Moor Market has been contacted for comment.

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