Animal Rebellion targeted a Leeds Marks & Spencer store as they sat in the supermarket's meat aisle on Good Friday.
Police were said to have been called as the group occupied the aisle at the store on Briggate, city centre for around two hours on Friday, April 7. Members of the group - known for previously blocking the entrance to a factory that makes McDonald's burgers and storming Harrods and another store in London, taking cartons and milk and emptying them - held up mock Mail on Sunday front papers.
The papers featured headlines including: "Nation of Animal Lovers Eat Baby Sheep in Odd Annual Easter Ritual."
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Animal Rebellion says its aim is to urge wholesale governmental and societal support for farmers and fishing communities to transition to a plant-based food system and programme of rewilding
Elliot, 30, a member of Animal Rebellion from Yorkshire, said: "We love animals. We love nature. We love to see lambs playing in fields like our dogs might at home. But we do not practice this in our actions. Instead, we stand by as animals suffer on farms and the pollution from these facilities poisons our soil, water and air and compromises the security of our climate.
"That is why I sat alongside seven other brave individuals in M&S in Leeds to truly celebrate ALL life this Easter: By protecting it."
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