"The Daily Mail" is a vile newspaper and so is its Sunday sister paper - "The Mail On Sunday". They both peddle venomous right wing bullshit in the disguise of old-fashioned middle-of-the-road English morality. Both newspapers are mostly owned by Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, a great-grandson of one of the paper's original co-founders. He is as Conservative as they come and a powerful advocate for the disgraced former prime minister - Mr B.Johnson .
North American visitors and bloggers from elsewhere in the world may never have heard of "The Grand National". It is this country's premier horse-racing steeplechase - imbued with history and run each spring at the Aintree circuit near Liverpool.
It appears that "The Daily Mail" have uncovered a plot in which animal rights activists are planning to disrupt the famous race. But why refer to them as a "vegan mob"? This is so wrong at many levels.
My son, Ian is a committed vegan but like most other vegans in this kingdom he is not an animal rights activist. There is no way he would have any truck with protests involving direct action on behalf of animal rights.
He is just a guy who enjoys a vegan diet and through his recipe books, products and events seeks to promote plant-based diets. He does not belong to any kind of "vegan mob". It is as if "The Daily Mail" have deliberately and maliciously taken the term and weaponised it.
I can well imagine that some of the angry people who are allegedly plotting to disrupt The Grand National are in fact vegetarians and some may be pescatarians. Some may even be omnivores like the rest of us. So why use the term "vegan"? I guess that a headline like, "Omnivore Mob Plots To Sabotage The Grand National" would not have the same toxic effect upon readers of an extremely vindictive right wing newspaper.
When the paper considers other newsworthy issues such as climate change, pollution, The Ukraine War, drug trafficking and mass shootings, do the reporters immediately consider the diet preferences of those involved? I think not.
The headline discredits and disrespects thousands of decent, law-abiding citizens who have simply cut meat, eggs and dairy products from their diets for a range of reasons. I plan to assist in a clever plot to bring down "The Daily Mail" newspaper . Will the associated headline read, "Fair-Minded Carnivore Mob Plots To Sabotage This Newspaper"?
I hereby vow on behalf of my son and thousands of other committed vegans never to read "The Daily Mail" or "The Mail On Sunday" ever again.
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