Three activists from the Futuro Vegetal collective, made up of climate activists who last year carried out actions such as sticking to Goya's 'Las Majas' at the Prado Museum, interrupting a Davis Cup match or paralyzing traffic on the M-30 in full operation Christmas outing in Madrid, have circumvented the security of the Congress of Deputies and have tried to stick their hands to the lectern of the speaker's gallery of the Lower House.
The three activists have stuck to the microphones of the lectern, but the security team has detached them, although one of them was kicked out with the microphone still attached, as some media have pointed out.
"The population is in danger and the powerful only think about their benefits," they have shared on their Twitter account. In addition, the collective has threatened the Executive: "We have a message for the government: if the subsidies to livestock farming do not stop in February, Futuro Vegetal will escalate in constant disruption. We already warned, but our demand is still being ignored because it puts it in check the interests of the mafia meat industry".
"We urgently need a transition to a plant-based diet to ensure our food sovereignty and adapt to climate chaos," they said.
The group has also cited the UN Secretary General to support their statements. They affirm that even the organism indicates that "we are on a highway towards climatic hell and we continue stepping on the accelerator". "Even Aemet already warns that the lack of rain in the last three years has led us to an incipient long-term drought."
Futuro Vegetal made an appeal through the networks to mobilize "at least 3,000 people willing to be arrested" with climate initiatives.
The group was thus looking for a strategy with which it intends to "end subsidies to livestock". For this reason, it foresees "a month of daily actions of high-intensity nonviolent civil disobedience" this spring.
