The French Butchers Federation applied in an open letter to the government of France, asking them to provide protection from the police against "aggressive-minded vegans," BBC News reports..

Butchers complain that over the past few months, aggressive vegan spattered with fake blood around 15 stores, and stoned showcases, and are engaged in vandalism, drawing inscriptions with calls to abandon meat.

"This horror, which people seek to sow, has only one goal: to make the huge layer of French culture disappear," said the head of the French federation of butchers Jean-Francois Guillard.

According to Giyard, such attacks can threaten traditional French cuisine, where there are many dishes of meat, and vegan just want to impose their way of life on everyone. "Vegans strive to impose their own way of life or even their ideology on the majority of people," he added..

According to statistics, in 2016, about 3% of the French considered themselves veggie. The authorities were offered to introduce the vegan menu in schools, and in the names of products to prohibit the use of the words "steak", "fillet", "bacon" and "sausage".