After a protest against cheap meat: Tönnies asks animal rights activists to pay

Time and again, Tönnies slaughterhouses are the target of animal rights activists who mobilize against cheap meat. A protest action in Schleswig-Holstein could cost the activists dearly. Tönnies wants to sue for the loss of production caused by a blockade.

After a protest by climate and animal rights activists at the Tönnies slaughterhouse in Kellinghusen in Schleswig-Holstein, the company is demanding 40,000 euros in damages from the group. Around 30 activists from the "Tear Down Tönnies" group blocked the slaughterhouse for around eleven hours in October 2019. The demand was confirmed by a spokesman for the group based in Rheda-Wiedenbrück.

Germany's largest slaughter company Tönnies had recently hit the headlines because the company at its headquarters in Rheda-Wiedenbrück had to stop operations for around four weeks after a high number of employees infected with corona. Meanwhile, the slaughter is done in two shifts again.

After the resumption of the slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Greenpeace activists also demonstrated against cheap meat with a banner campaign on the factory premises. The activists landed with motorized paragliders on the roof of the Tönnies main building and put a seven by 14 meter banner on the outside wall next to the company logo with the words "End the pig system", as announced by Greenpeace.

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