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Animal rights activists have set up a blockade at what they claim is the only UK factory to produce McDonald's beef burger patties in a bid to persuade the fast food giant to commit to a plant-based menu.
Dozens protestors set up a blockade outside the OSI Food Solutions factory in Scunthorpe last night.
The demonstrators, who have said they will stay 'as long as it takes', are using trucks, tents, bamboo structures and a roof occupation to stop the facility from distributing burgers and urge them to switch to a plant-based menu.
Professor Joy Carter, Emeritus Professor of Geochemistry and Health, University of Winchester said: 'There is no second chance in averting climate breakdown – we have just one opportunity to get this right.
Animal rights activists from the group Animal Rebellion have set up a blockade at what they claim is the only UK factory to produce McDonald's beef burger patties in a bid to persuade the fast food giant to commit to a plant-based menu by 2025
This is the latest in string of demonstrations by Animal Rebellion to target McDonalds and urge the switch to plant-based food
'We need to radically change our food system and it must start with the meat and dairy industry. Until we make large-scale systemic changes and move towards a plant-based food system, we will continue to destroy our planet.'
According to an online brochure, OSI Food Solutions UK is 'the exclusive supplier of red meat products to McDonald's Restaurants in the UK.'
Animal Rebellion, which claims the factory produces three million burgers a day, is demanding that McDonald's becomes fully plant-based by 2025.
They have said that they will end the
