By Rod Ardehali For Mailonline
Published: 09:17 GMT, 14 February 2019 | Updated: 09:18 GMT, 14 February 2019
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Vegan activists have begun performing 'last rites' ceremonies for incoming cows at an abattoir run by a major meat processing company.
Leicestershire Animal Save are hosting monthly roadside vigils in Melton Mowbray in which they tell the cattle 'we love you, we are sorry', before the animals are taken away for slaughter at the Foyle Food Group run plant.
The activists have held 35 ceremonies since founding the group in 2015, and continue to protest the slaughter by holding signs which say 'your taste=their death'.
Leicestershire Animal Save are hosting monthly roadside vigils in Melton Mowbray in which they tell the cattle 'we love you, we are sorry', before the animals are taken away for slaughter at the Foyle Food Group run plant
Group found Dina Aherne said her group has an understanding with abattoir bosses who allow them to comfort the animals, held inside trailers, for two minutes before they are transported to the slaughterhouse.
Ms Aherne, a 28-year-old former solicitor from Leicester said: 'We want to make the cows feel at ease every time because they are living and sacred beings.
'Cows have a living soul and conscience. We really want to help comfort them. We have to arrange and give two weeks notice for when we are going to be
