Quote (fender @ Aug 3 2020 11:45am)
the video and the news article you linked are different incidents. the video was made three years ago and no one died there, the incident in canada, in which the woman died, was recently - and she did NOT just jump in front of a truck (at least according to witnesses, video footage was not released).
i'm not a vegetarian or vegan, but i do care about animal cruelty and the carbon footprint of meat-heavy diets. that said, actions like shown in the video are an incredibly stupid and short sighted type of 'protest' that never had a chance of achieving anything meaningful. for all we know the trucker could be a vegan himself (probably not though), but either way he's just a low wage working class citizen who'd probably have to pay for any delays or damage of his shipment, at least in the US considering their lack of worker protection. bothering him for some clicks on instagram or to feel good about yourself is just stupid.
with all that out of the way, he should have stopped regardless. even though i think he was initially in the right, you don't take chances with other human beings' lives, no matter how wrong or stupid they are. they posed no danger to his own life, they didn't try to enter his cabin or anything, they were just overzealous animal rights activists.
Mb, i saw the video and was trying to find the story around it, looks like i got it mixed up