Thomas Cook demo in Cardiff

As part of Mauritius Week, activists in descended on Cardiff to expose to the public Thomas Cook's vile links with the Mauritian Monkey Trade. We were met with outstanding support, not least from the staff of Thomas Cook. We held aloft a banner explaining Thomas Cook's involvement with the transportation of monkeys into the UK to be tortured without anesthetic inside the hellholes of UK animal testing laboratories. The police came and as usual embarassed themselves by exhibiting their complete and total ignorance of public order law, they resorted to having to read the activists' own 'Legal Advice for Activists' booklet and still got it wrong. During these discussion members of the public came up to the police and argued with them over their bullying of the activists.

Thomas Cook lost a lot of custom, the manager came out complaining 'We are empty in there you know, no one is coming in because of you lot' and he had to resort to putting up a sign, saying they were still open despite the 'inconvenience'. We can't help it if the public act with compassion and decide to steer clear of travel agents who will not speak out against animal cruelty.
As long as the bodies of the tortured primates mount, so will our determination to end the sickening primate trade. BA, Air Mauritius and Air China have already made an ethical descision to end their deals in animal torture and it is now time for Thomas Cook to do the same.