A Chinese vlogger was attacked on the face by an octopus she was trying to eat during a live stream, reports Daily Mail.
The woman, known as “seaside girl Little Seven” online, tried to eat a live octopus for her live stream on the popular video platform Kuaishou but ended up horrified as the octopus tried to fight desperately for its life.
In the 50-second video, the woman can be seen screaming in pain as she desperately tries to peel off the animal’s tentacles from her skin.
At the beginning of the video, the octopus has already stuck its tentacles on the vlogger’s left cheek, who does not seem to be bothered.
“She can be heard telling her fans ‘look how hard it’s sucking’ as she tried to remove a tentacle from her upper lip,” Daily Mail writes.
However, upon realizing that the octopus would not let go of her face, the vlogger started to panic and cry. She started screaming “painful” and “I can’t remove it” while using all her strength to remove the tentacles off her face.
The woman’s face became so stretched out during the process until the octopus decided to let go. Once the octopus has been removed, the woman promised to eat it in the next video.
Image credit: Kuaishou/Dan Yao Bu Ji Jun
According to her Kuaishou account, the vlogger lives in Lianyungang and loves to eat seafood. She has already eaten different types of seafood in her channel, including cooked lobsters and crayfish.
It seems that she was determined to become viral as one of her videos showed her complaining that her previous videos were not able to reach the video platform’s trending chart. However, the octopus video quickly went viral.
The vlogger has been receiving backlash not only from vegans but also from meat eaters who are concerned with animal welfare.
A vegan said: “Sucks to be attacked by the most intelligent invertebrate. But it sucks more to be seafood. Ditch eating sea creatures (dead or alive) and go vegan.”
“To eat it alive is nothing but cruelty and attention seeking,” a Facebook user commented.
Another added: “This should happen to everyone trying to harm a living creature just for the sake of popularity.”
“My pulse literally went up because I felt so bad for the octopus. The way she pulled him… humanity as it’s finest,” said another.
“Girl, your life is so boring that you are ready to hurt an animal to have attention from others??? How far are you ready to go to have more followers? … No respect,” another person commented.
“Octopus is the smartest animal in the world. So don’t try to eat it alive or you’ll getting eaten alive by them,” a social media user joked.
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, known for “Sherlock” and “Doctor Strange,” proudly wore an all-vegan suit made with bamboo and “peace silk” at this year’s Met Gala.
Cumberbatch, who went vegan last year, attended this year’s Met Gala, an annual fundraising event for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York.
According to Daily Mail, Cumberbatch became one of the centers of attention as he arrived at the fundraising event with his wife, director Sophie Hunter.
“We spent ages talking about it and planning it for about three weeks before he flew to the U.S,” Joe Woolfe, Cumberbatch’s stylist for 10 years, told Daily Mail.
“He’s vegan, so that meant there were a lot of fabrics we couldn’t use. We ended up using an amazing English bamboo fabric from Huddersfield Fine Worsteds.”
Woolfe added that he acquired Cumberbatch’s shirt from designer Emma Willis, who dresses Prince Charles, and made sure that the silk would meet the vegan actor’s standards.
“It was silk, but peace silk, which doesn’t involve killing the worms, so it’s fully vegan and cruelty-free,” he said.
“I had to get a few for him to choose from, because I know what he’s like, and if I just give him one thing he’ll feel like he’s being cornered. But he always ends up choosing what I offered first!”
Aside from Cumberbatch, vegan musician Miley Cyrus and her husband Liam Hemsworth both made sure to stay cruelty-free at the Met Gala.
Sharing photos of her and Hemsworth at the gala to her 92.5 million Instagram followers, Cyrus said: “Thank you @ysl @anthonyvaccarello for the custom vegan faux leather platforms! (Liam’s shoes are also vegan!)”
“With all those privileged folks in attendance, you’d think the Met Gala could afford a little compassion for one night,” PETA said in a statement.
“This year’s event kept up with its usual extravagant fashions and runway shenanigans — but to [our] disappointment, it featured a LOT of feathers. (We’re looking at you, Jenners.)”
“The fashion world now knows how cruel it is to wear dead animals’ fur, but as far as we can tell — with everyone trying to look like Big Bird at the gala — it’s still ignorant about where feathers for those gaudy outfits come from.”
“Those feathers once belonged to living, feeling animals and were ripped out of their bodies, which were left bloody, broken, and destroyed,” PETA concluded.
To show their support, some of the UK’s well-known, independent vegan restaurants are offering discounts to those who will take part in the pledge.
Some of the restaurants that offer discounts for participants of the Summer Vegan Pledge include Café Van Gogh from London, which not only serves affordable vegan food but also offer cooking classes to local children with additional needs; Vx from London, the city’s very first all-vegan shop; and Biff’s Jack Shack, decadent and filthy vegan food using jackfruit as its main ingredient.
Image: Instagram/Café Van Gogh
Other restaurants that offer discounts to show their support are Miami Burger, Chia Naturally Healthy, Vutie Beets, Happy Maki, Vegan Antics, and Earth.
Tod Bradbury, Animal Aid’s Vegan Outreach Campaign Manager, said in a statement sent to Vegan World News: “We are very grateful to all of the amazing restaurants for offering participants a special discount.”
“The Summer Vegan Pledge is the perfect opportunity for those who are curious about a plant-based diet to give it a try. And with vegan options popping up in supermarkets, coffee shops, restaurants, and cafés — both chain and independent — it has never been easier.”
“A plant-based vegan diet is kinder to animals, better for the environment and healthy.”
Image: Instagram/Chia Naturally Healthy
Participants of the Summer Vegan Pledge are offered all the help and advice that they need to stay vegan for 30 days, including a free welcome pack full of recipes, advice about nutrition, and tips on shopping.
The vegan challenge also includes regular updates throughout the month to keep participants motivated and fully informed about the cruelty-free lifestyle, access to exclusive social media channels for sharing tips and advice, details about vegan events and special offers, and one-to-one help if needed.
Other well-known faces who supported this year’s vegan pledge are “A Place in the Sun” presenter Jasmine Harman, stand-up comedian Andrew O’Neill, “Big Brother 2018” contestant Kay Lovelle, sports presenter Laura Winter, and philanthropist Heather Mills.
You can sign up for the 2019 Summer Vegan Pledge on the Animal Aid website.
Around 45% of vegans in the UK felt discriminated at work, even by their employers, says new study.
The study, which was conducted by Crossland Employment Solicitors law firm, found that almost half (45%) of the 1,000 vegan employees questioned about their workplace experiences admitted that they felt discriminated against by employers.
Additionally, almost a third (31%) felt harassed or unfairly treated at work due to being vegan.
“Our research shows that prejudiced attitudes towards vegan workers is endemic among British employers and a lack of understanding as to the potential impact of the Equality Act 2010,” Beverley Sunderland, managing director at Crossland Employments Solicitors, told Vegan Food and Living.
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Sunderland explained that the vegan lifestyle must be respected at work as it is “cogent, serious, and applies to an important aspect of human life or behavior.”
She added: “For example, case law has already decided that belief in man-made climate change is a philosophical belief and there is little doubt that veganism will be considered also when it comes before the Tribunal later this year in the case Casamitjana v League Against Cruel Sports.”
Image: Unsplash/Headway
The study also questioned 1,000 employers and found that almost half (48%) do not bother accommodating vegans.
Around 3% even admitted that they would not hire vegans, which Crossland Employment Solicitors pointed out to be against the UK’s Equality Act 2010.
Moreover, 24% of employers believe that most people only go vegan to lose weight or look good, while 30% said that accommodating vegans is expensive or difficult.
“We’d advise that employers need to be taking such beliefs seriously and acting against those who are derogatory about vegans,” said Sunderland.
“After all, if an employee was mocking someone’s religion, their sex or their race, an employer would not hesitate to take serious action.”
Fast food giant KFC faces backlash from vegans for its anti-vegan ad despite plans to launch a vegan burger soon.
KFC’s new ad, which features a meat-heavy burger, admits that veganism is tremendously growing around the world.
However, it implies that the fast food chain’s new meat-heavy burger is delicious enough to convince the public to not go vegan yet, saying: “Try one before you turn vegan.”
“Let’s be frank — we’ve timed this burger badly,” the ad continues. “It’s coming out during a time when unprecedented numbers of people are eschewing meat, and embracing aubergine.”
“There’s every chance that you yourself, if not already vegan, are seriously considering it… It might be the worst possible point in history to launch this burger. But bad timing never tasted so good.”
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Vegans were not happy upon seeing the advertisement, with some pointing out that people usually go vegan because they don’t want to hurt animals, not because they hate the taste of meat.
“They act like people go vegan because they don’t like the taste of meat,” a vegan wrote on Twitter.
Another vegan added: “KFC can easily change to stand for ‘Kind, Friendly Cooking’…. it wouldn’t be at all difficult to make the switch from chicken to seitan, ‘Temple of Seitan’ style. The sooner the better @kfc“
“I said it before I’ll say it again . THIS is why we cannot take these chains seriously when they add a vegan option. This is proof that they don’t give a F**K,” said another.
“Look at the positives, this means that the meat industry is shook and struggling, they didn’t expect veganism to spread this far, now they are begging people to buy their product,” another vegan wrote.
Other meat eaters agreed with vegans regarding the issue and advised the fast food chain to just promote the burger without mentioning or attacking other lifestyles.
According to TV presenter Nisha Katona, the fast food giant has created a vegan chicken burger in its UK development kitchen.
Katona got the chance to taste the vegan burger and shared that even though the new vegan burger is still in the development process, it is already “brilliant” and diners “have much to look forward to.”
“Oh my heaven! On a dream job today- filming for the BBC One Show with exclusive access to the actual KFC headquarters development kitchen,” Katona wrote on Twitter.
“Also I was the first member of the public to taste the new vegan chicken burger. This to me is actually living the dream.”
There is still no word on when KFC plans to release the vegan burger in the UK.
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