Unrepentant eco-fanatics double down on plot to sabotage the Grand National trends now
Unrepentant eco-fanatics vowed to cause a ‘summer of animal rising’ last night after their plot to sabotage the Grand National was exposed.
More than 100 members of Animal Rebellion – an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion – plan to use bolt-cutters and ladders to get through security fences and sneak into Aintree, before gluing themselves together to form a human barricade across the course.
The conspiracy, uncovered by a Mail On Sunday reporter, comes just two weeks before the famous horse race takes place on April 15.
It attracts a global TV audience of 600 million as well as tens of thousands of spectators at the course.
In an online meeting last night, activists also revealed plans to break into animal rescues and farms, disrupt diners at restaurants and block aisles at supermarkets.
This Animal Rebellion member is award-winning business journalist Jim Edwards, the former founding editor of the UK edition of financial news website Business Insider
Attempting to draw in recruits by asking whether this would be ‘the Last Grand National’, the group encouraged would-be eco-fanatics to ‘bring your mates’
They also pledged to stop traffic across Britain, the same tactic used by Just Stop Oil to cause chaos on crucial highways and motorways last year.
The militants called on the fellow activist group and Extinction Rebellion to join them in the disruption as part of its ‘summer of animal rising’.
Leaders of the group cynically also sought to spin the expose to launch a promotional drive for a meeting about its scheme to disrupt the race.
Attempting to draw in recruits by asking whether this would be ‘the Last Grand National’, the group encouraged would-be eco-fanatics to ‘bring your mates’, adding: ‘This is one you don’t want to miss.’
Animal Rebellion member and plot ringleader Rose Patterson gloated yesterday: ‘One undercover Mail on Sunday reporter is not going to stop teachers, nurses, and more from acting for all life and really beginning the crucial conversation about our broken relationship with other animals.
‘This conversation is vital if we are to tackle the root causes of our climate and ecological
