Joey Chestnut received his fifteenth Nathan’s Scorching Canine competitors yearly on Monday, however solely after he put an animal rights activist in a masks and criticized the mediator beneath.
Chestnut, who competed with one foot in a medical shoe attributable to harm, was briefly eliminated similtaneously the protester tried to position himself in entrance of the cameras holding the competition. The New York Submit reported. Due to Chestnut’s harsh response, nonetheless, the protester was rapidly faraway from the stage and handcuffed. Instantly the storm returned.
Chestnut went on to win the competitors by defeating 63 scorching and dry canines in 10 minutes. Geoffrey Esper who got here second defended solely 43 canines.
The protester wore a Darth Vader masks and carried a plaque bearing “Expose Smithfield’s Deathstar.” The animal rights group Direct Motion All over the place, which has claimed accountability for the assault, mentioned in a press release that the sign was meant to explain “the pressure exerted by Star Wars a sequence of movies to the most important pig farm within the nation, ”says Smithfield’s Circle 4 Farms in Milford, Utah.
Circle 4 Farms kills almost a million pigs every year, based on him The Intercept. The inhabitants of the Alderaan world on the time of the Star of Demise was almost two billion.