Vegan row: Jeremy Vine questions activist on milk

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Jeremy Vine’s talk show on Wednesday witnessed a fiery row over milk consumption in Britain amid a push by vegan activists for a curb on dairy. Protests in recent weeks by vegan campaigners have seen supermarket aisles raided and bottles of milk poured out on the floor. 

“The system here is failing itself democratically, our democratically elected Government had a food commission a food strategy led by Henry Dimbleby, which made very clear recommendations,” snapped the activist.

“We have to start getting rid of meat and dairy and the Government hasn’t done it.

“The democratic system has failed!”

In response, Vine questioned: “What if people want to drink milk? I mean, or they want to cook with milk,  are they not allowed to anymore because of you?”

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The vegan activist replied: “Yes, at the moment, the Government is manipulating the food system by pouring £3billion a year in subsidising meat and dairy whilst around plant based milks to be incredibly expensive by comparison, despite that soy milk and normal dairy milk are actually now at the same price.

“Sometimes soy is even cheaper, but we’re not calling for individuals here to change and we’re not trying to guilt or shame anyone.

“We’re calling for the Government to stop wasting billions of pounds of taxpayers’ money when it could be instead going into a better future.” 

It comes as multiple protesters have been arrested after environmental activists threw white paint over the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday.

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The Metropolitan Police said 10 members of Animal Rebellion were detained, including some who glued themselves to the pavement outside the parliamentary estate shortly before Liz Truss’s first Prime Minister’s Questions.

The group staged similar protests throughout London earlier this month.

Members chanted about dairy distribution sites in the UK at Wednesday’s demonstration.

The Metropolitan Police Events Twitter account said: “At approximately 10.50am, protesters threw white liquid over the gates and walls of Palace of Westminster, Bridge Street.

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“Six people carried out sit down protest on the carriageway. Officers promptly on scene. 10 individuals arrested for criminal damage.

“Traffic has resumed to normal.”

One protester, who did not want to be named, told the PA news agency: “We just want people to listen. Liz Truss has to act on dairy farming. Climate change, which is worsened by dairy farming, is the biggest problem of our time.”

A spokesman for Animal Rebellion later said the protest was about the farming and fishing industries as a whole rather than specifically dairy farming.

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