• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Torn by Ashley S. Morgan Piers Morgan says he’ll buy ‘1,000 Big Macs’ after vegans blockade McDonald’s to stop burgers getting out. PIERS Morgan is not one to hold back when it comes to his opinion, and the vegans blockade of McDonalds at the weekend has really ticked him off. Cops arrested 15 people yesterday after animal rights protesters caused chaos at all four depots for a second day. Campaigners shackled themselves to teetering bamboo towers to seal off the distribution centres in Hemel Hempstead, Basingstoke, Coventry and Heywood at 4.30am on Saturday. The sit-in meant lorries were unable to take burgers and nuggets to the chain's 1,300 UK restaurants. Demonstrations only ended early yesterday morning as police broke up crowds. But not one to hold back, Piers made sure to tweet his disapproval at the fast food restaurant being held up by vegans. Taking to Twitter he poked fun at the situation by posting: "This makes me want to buy 1000 Big Macs tomorrow." Meanwhile, a spokesman for McDonald's confirmed that all four sites have reopened and deliveries have resumed. It's not believed any of the 3.5million people who visit a McDonald's every day in the UK have yet been affected by shortages as a result of the action. Hampshire Constabulary's Chief Inspector Matt Reeves said: “Everyone has the right to free speech and protest. "However, officers will take necessary action against the few who deliberately choose to act outside the law.” Protesters from group Animal Rebellion said they would cause "significant disruption" to the supply chain in a bid to get the company to commit to plant-based meals only by 2025. Videos posted online show the activists building huge structures from bamboo and sitting on top of lorries ready to take food to branches. In footage uploaded on Saturday, one protester shows parked-up lorries and says: "They won't be leaving today. "We've shut the whole place down and not only that, we've shut down distribution centres across the country. "Four distribution centres across the country, which are the only McDonald's distribution centres in the UK. "We've shut them all down today." Animal Rebellion spokesman James Ozden said the action was aimed at calling out the animal agriculture industry for its part in the global climate crisis. The group says it's in "alliance" with Extinction Rebellion, although the two groups aren't the same. The group first demonstrated in 2019 when members joined 10,000 people to occupy Trafalgar Square in London. more on piers morgan. BACK FOR MORE. BROTHERS? ONLY KEIR FOR THE BEERS. FIGHTING TALK. BEERS MORGAN. EURO TRASH. 'i was shocked' FREEDOM! 'SHUT UP' Two months later, 1,500 volunteers took over Smithfields Market, the oldest meat market in the UK. And campaigners are launching a six-day 'disrupt G7' campaign in June. On Saturday a McDonald's spokesperson said the impact on eateries was being assessed and apologised to customers for "any disappointment caused". More from The Sun. Boris 'wanted to be infected with Covid on live TV and called virus 'Kung Flu'' Maturity of Joey Essex in his TV documentary beats whines of Harry. LUST WILL & TESTAMENT. Madcap Lord Bath left £23m in will but snubbed harem of 74 'wifelets' CUT PIPE KILLED LAD. Gas blast that killed toddler, 2, 'caused by severed pipe next door' Follow The Sun. Services. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. View our online Press Pack. For other inquiries, Contact Us. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) Marilyn Manson's Ex Ashley Smithline Found Healing by Bonding with Other Alleged Victims: 'Cathartic' In this week's cover story of PEOPLE, Ashley Morgan Smithline reveals the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of the rocker and also shares how instrumental meeting with his other alleged victims — including actresses Esmé Bianco and Evan Rachel Wood — has been for her healing process. "It's been like this sisterhood," Smithline, 36, tells PEOPLE. "It's been really cathartic and good for all of us. It made things a lot easier." Six of the women who have come forward with allegations of abuse met in September 2020 for more than six hours as they spoke up about their abuse. "It was like looking at a room full of myself," Smithline says of meeting with the other women. "All of the abuse, the gaslighting, he just has a very specific pattern." In an Instagram statement shortly after the first allegations surfaced, Manson said "these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality. My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners." In response to Smithline's specific allegations, a spokesperson for Manson, 52, says they "strongly deny her claims," stating that their relationship "didn't last a week." Smithline says that she and the other women recounted having been beaten, abused and hurt by Manson in very similar ways. "I have bonded with the other girls who went through this, and we've found such a strength in numbers," she says. "Our stories are all f—ing identical. It's disgusting. Like, at least if you're going to be an abusive psychopath, be original, and he wasn't in any way." "Being with the other girls, these feelings of guilt and shame have lessened," Smithline adds. "They're not going away, and I don't know they will, and my feelings of dirtiness like having him in me and on me, and wanting to wash that off, has not gone away. I really look forward to when it does." For more on Ashley Morgan Smithline, the abuse she says she faced at the hands of Marilyn Manson and why other survivors have decided to speak out, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday. Marilyn Manson's Ex Ashley Morgan Smithline 'Thought He Was Going to Kill' Her During Abusive Relationship. In one of PEOPLE's cover stories this week, Smithline — one of 15 women, including actresses Evan Rachel Wood and Esmé Bianco, who have accused Marilyn Manson of sexual, psychological and physical abuse — reveals the extent of the torture she says she survived at the hands of the metal rocker. "I survived a monster," the 36-year-old tells PEOPLE in her first interview since naming Manson as her abuser in February in an Instagram statement. Over the course of two years, Smithline says that along with being sexually assaulted by the rock star countless times, Manson, 52, bit her, whipped her, cut her with a swastika-emblazoned knife and shoved his fist in her mouth during sex. She says he also forced her to do a blood pact and that she was locked into what he called "the bad girls' room," a glass, soundproof room, whenever she "pissed him off." After numerous women accused him of abuse, Manson responded in February that his "intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners," calling the women's stories "horrible distortions of reality." In response to Smithline's allegations, a spokesperson for Manson — who is currently being investigated for domestic violence by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department — says they "strongly deny her claims." "There are so many falsehoods within her claims that we wouldn't know where to begin to answer them," the statement reads. "This relationship, to the limited extent it was a relationship, didn't last one week." (Smithline provided PEOPLE with emails and messages she says were from Manson that span more than two years.) Listen below to the episode of our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day for more on PEOPLE's cover story with Ashley Morgan Smithline. Smithline and Bianco's attorney Jay Ellwanger also issued a statement to PEOPLE in support of his client. "I am proud to represent Ms. Smithline as she comes forward to share her truth about Brian Warner," Ellwanger said in a statement to PEOPLE. "We are exploring all options to hold him accountable for his actions and to make sure that this behavior ends once and for all." Smithline and Manson connected during the summer of 2010 while she was modeling in Asia. Manson reached out to her about an acting role in a film. Excited about the potential gig, she and Manson began chatting as Smithline started to feel a deeper connection with the rocker. It wasn't his macabre makeup or ghoulish persona that drew her in, she says. Instead, "he lured me in with this endless intelligence." "He seemed brilliant and I still think he is," she says. "We talked about Nabokov and Tolstoy and foreign films and not in a pretentious 'first year of film school' way. In a way of really appreciating art and literature." For more on Ashley Morgan Smithline, the abuse she says she faced at the hands of Marilyn Manson and why other survivors have decided to speak out, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday. According to Smithline, Manson started sending her dozens of text messages at all hours of the day and night as things started to get "slowly more and more invasive." While she was abroad, Smithline — who is of Jewish descent — says the rocker asked her to find Nazi memorabilia like throwing stars, knives and whips to bring back to him in L.A.

Load more

  6

Copy Link