
A Chinese-American animal rights activist has actually been jailed for walking a young cow near the Kremlin, state media reported Wednesday.
Alisa Dey, 34, told the state-run TASS news firm she had actually bought the calf online so it wouldnt be eaten.
Police apprehended her as she walked with the animal, reportedly shouting Animals are not food, on Red Square.She was sentenced to 13 days of arrest on charges of disobeying police orders and fined 20,000 rubles ($286), while the calf was sent to an animal rehab.
I just wished to show the cow her nation, her capital.
I enjoy strolling farm animals because individuals often tell me that they begin consuming less meat when they satisfy my animals.
And now I just wished to hang out with her, she told the Izvestia daily on Wednesday.Dey describes herself as a Chinese nationwide whos been living long-term in Russia on the Russian social media VKontakte.Her profile contains images of herself with a black sheep in various public settings, consisting of a square, a train and a structure lobby.In 2021, Ukrainian media reported that Dey wasspotted strolling a calf and a pig in the east-central city of Dnipro.
I wanted to conserve [the animals] due to the fact that individuals eat [them], Dey said in Russian in a video interview at the time.Dey was likewise profiled by British media in 2019 for saving another pig from slaughter in London, where she had actually taken it on walks to dining establishments, trains and parks.
Some people told me point blank they are becoming vegetarians after satisfying my pig, the Daily Mail priced estimate Dey, a local of New York, as saying at the time.However, she consequently faced a reaction for keeping the animal in her small apartment and was forced to surrender it to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).