Arla Foods Ltd v Persons Unknown, 2024 WL 03597159 (2024)
37. The following accommodations also needed to be made, which caused a significant disruption to Arla's operations: (a) Arla staff were required to park on Samian Way, walk to work, or use the emergency access; (b) raw milk deliveries were diverted away from the Aylesbury Site; (c) planned deliveries such as fuel, bottle resin and packaging, were rescheduled for the following day; (d) outbound vehicles were stuck at the dairy and unable to leave, and no empty vehicles could enter the Site to load outbound deliveries; (e) the dairy only had 250 milk cages on-site due to the inability to replenish stocks and could not therefore run; and (f) additional security was requested to cover the third gatehouse and patrols. 38. Moving forward to 2022, in or around August 2022 the Claimants became aware from Animal Rebellion's website of a plan to disrupt the dairy supply in the UK in September over a one to two week period. The website included a section entitled " This Changes Everything- A Plant Based Future ", which stated, among other things, as follows:
"The near term goal is fairly simple, this September we will be disrupting the dairy supply across the UK with 500 people over a 1-2 week period, cutting off the supply of milk to supermarkets and causing unignorable high-level disruption which will be felt by tens of millions of people across the UK and be a sustained no.1 news story. This will result in more than one thousand arrests and put the damage and exploitation of animal agriculture at centre stage. We will then build on that momentum with a large-scale occupation in the centre of London… This is the beginning of a long term civil resistance project, where we will be raising the stakes through the actions we take and also continuing our resistance through the court systems… Strategy The two key mechanisms / tools to achieve our aims are large-scale material disruption and the drama of interactions with the public by more localised disruptions… We need to make sure we create a crisis at the start, so going in with maximum intensity to make sure our issue is a number one news story, and after that we can keep the debate going with relatively minimal effort…. A key action design principle is all actions must be "simple, unbeatable and repeatable". …
Action plan: Phase 1- warm up actions and mobilisation starting at the beginning of June …
Phase 2- two weeks high-intensity in September with 500+ people The objective is simple- we are going to have supermarket shelves empty of milk for two weeks, and will stack all energy and mobilisation towards this goal. We will be asking for people to commit to taking one week off. This phase will have a clear end and a clear ask for people to join us at phase 3… Phase 3- mobilise to the city Phase 3 will be an openly-organised mass occupation in London with no barrier to entry. We will mobilise during Phase 2 and we can double down on this by taking out newspaper adverts and by our spokespeople press releases talking about the meeting date and location. This will happen a
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