, just outside Edinburgh today.
Other members also glued themselves to gates where sheep were being kept during the event in Islington, Edinburgh Live reports. The activists said the goal of their protest was to continue ‘a national conversation about our broken relationship with other animals and nature that began in April when the group disrupted the Grand National at Aintree, and the Scottish Grand National in Ayr.’
Sarah McCaffrey, a member of Animal Rising who was taking part in the protest said: “We are here to engage in conversation around our broken relationship with animals and nature. We know that we are a nation of animal lovers, but that is not reflected in our actions.