"You have to be DBS-checked every year and I had one two months ago and I already had like seven arrests at that point and it didn't even show up on the DBS check.
"I've had a clearance for actually three years now, so I can do that for three years."
In preparation for the Epsom Derby disruption, activists have been told to write the number of the solicitors firms that represent the group on their bodies, so that they can contact them when they're arrested.
Mr King Houston told the meeting that "Birds", "Hodge Jones and Allen" and "Commons" all represent Animal Rising when they are being held.
During the session two of the activists, one from Poland and the other from Canada, expressed concerns about being "deported" from the UK.
The young Polish activist, Doris, asked Mr King Houston "how many times" she can be arrested before being booted out of the country.
Moustachioed Mr King Houston, who was wearing sparkly fake leather tracksuit bottoms, allayed the concerns of the young protester by telling her that the "head of actions" at Animal Rising, Rue, is from the Netherlands and "has been arrested maybe 12 times and there has never been any question" of deportation.
He said: "You have to be convicted. It doesn't matter if you get charged, you can be arrested and charged and that doesn't even come up on the DBS check."
The vegan activists were told they mustn't "laugh" at the angry general public despite it being "hard" not to.
Two of the activists in the session were arrested during a police raid on the Haggerston training location. One of these activists, Kylie a "dog healer" from Essex in her mid-forties, told the training session she was willing to be one of the drivers for the Epsom demonstration.
The mother-of-two said both her children did not eat meat and that they would be a force to be reckoned with they grew up.
After the chaos at the Grand National two months ago, Animal Rising - an offshoot of militant eco-group Extinction - threatened a summer of action.
Last week's injunction, granted by Sir Anthony Mann "prohibits acts intended to disrupt The Derby Festival at Epsom Downs Racecourse on June 2 and 3, 2023."
It warns that anyone in breach of the order or anyone helping them could be "held to be in contempt of court and may be imprisoned, fined, have your assets seized".
Mr Truesdale added: "Judge Sir Anthony Mann's decision to grant us that injunction last week means that anyone who chooses to breach security will not only be dealt with robustly by our security teams and the police but could also now be subject to contempt of court proceedings which may result in a fine and imprisonment.
"As such I now urge Animal Rising to abandon any plans to breach security at' right of the thousands of naonla who will ioin us at Ensom Downs and the mini( world to enjc BREAKING NEWS
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