Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant brands Animal Rebellion protesters as ‘disrespectful’

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay was forced to close after a group of protesters from Animal Rebellion sat at reserved tables with fake menus and refused to leave. Lucia Alexander said in a statement provided by the group that Restaurant Gordon Ramsay was the “perfect example” of inequality in the UK. “Whilst Gordon Ramsay serves food costing a minimum of £155 per person, more than two million people are relying on food banks in this cost of living crisis,” she continued. Handout photo issued by Animal Rebellion of supporters of Animal Rebellion who have occupied Gordon Ramsay's three-star Michelin restaurant in Chelsea “Instead of restaurants making colossal profits at the expense of animals, workers and our climate, we need to feed everyone by supporting farmers and fishing communities in a transition to a plant-based food system.” Animal Rebellion says that such a system “required 75 per cent less farmland to grow food” and will allow “millions of additional people” to be fed without relying on “exploitative and inefficient animal farming industries”.