{"id":8225,"date":"2018-11-06T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T22:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:32:57","slug":"death-threats-at-pick-your-own-turkey-farm-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2018\/11\/06\/death-threats-at-pick-your-own-turkey-farm-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Death threats at ‘pick your own turkey’ farm shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Staff at a farm shop offering a “pick your own Christmas turkey” service say they have received death threats.<\/p>\n

The words “Murder” and “Go vegan” have been spray-painted on the door at Greendale Farm Shop in Woodbury Salterton, Devon.<\/p>\n

Greendale is providing a service where people can name their own turkey and “help look after it for the next two months”.<\/p>\n

The Vegan Society said it “does not support” any threats or abuse.<\/p>\n

Farmer Mat Carter, 35, said he wanted to “offer people the chance to see where their food came from”.<\/p>\n

He said the backlash to the service started “almost immediately” after it was shared on Facebook and Instagram on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mr Carter said staff arrived at work on Tuesday to find the spray paint across the shop and on pheasants for sale outside. The vandalism has been reported to police.<\/p>\n

He said they had also received “very strange” phone calls.<\/p>\n

One person reportedly called and asked the butcher: “How would you like it if I cut you up and put you on the counter?”<\/p>\n

Another caller is said to have shouted obscenities, before saying: “You should be the ones being killed because your life is worth less than that of the innocent animals which you are murdering”.<\/p>\n

Despite the backlash, Mr Carter told the BBC staff would not give in to any pressure.<\/p>\n

He added that turkey sales “have gone through the roof” and the shop is “busier than it has ever been”.<\/p>\n