The mass ‘die-in’ took place on Friday in King’s Cross and included many parents, children and even toddlers. The other shoppers had to negotiate the many bodies littering the ground in order to raise awareness of a climate emergency. Comedian Ryan Hand filmed the protestors as he attempted to buy a cucumber.

He wrote on Twitter: “Had to carefully navigate through the fruit and veg aisle to get my cucumber like lol.”

The protesters said the ‘die-in’ represents the ‘death toll that will come from global food shortages’.

They wrote: “Our government is failing to act on climate change.

“And this means it is failing to act to protect us from the threat of food shortages.

“Right now, everything looks fine. The supermarket shelves are stacked. We have more choice, and more abundance, of exotic world foods, than we could ever imagine.

“And if the strawberries are sold out, not to worry, there’ll be more on the shelves tomorrow.

“But this is an illusion, and we need to wake up!”

The last two weeks have seen daily protests organised by Extinction Rebellion activists that have blocked large swathes of the capital, including Marble Arch and Waterloo Bridge.

Last week the protests scaled down in scale but not intensity – a woman went so far as to glue her breasts the road outside the Goldman Sachs offices on Thursday, while others temporarily blockaded the London Stock Exchange by glueing themselves across entrances to the trading hub in the City of London.

They were un-attached before being taken away in police vans, with Scotland Yard saying 26 people had been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespassing.

Elsewhere, five protesters including 83-year-old grandfather Phil Kingston clambered onto the roof of a DLR train at Canary Wharf station in east London, holding signs saying ‘business as usual = death’ and ‘don’t jail the canaries’.

An XR spokeswoman said Thursday’s targets were selected because “the financial industry is responsible for funding climate and ecological destruction and we are calling on them, the companies and the institutions that allow this to happen, to tell the truth.”

Some 1,130 people have been arrested during the protests which started on April 15, while more than 10,000 police officers have been deployed.

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