The Tattie Bandits steal thousands of potato scones
Food activists have admitted to stealing thousands of potato scones from city centre supermarkets over the weekend.
The food insecurity and climate campaign group This is Rigged have announced that members of their organisation, the self-professed Tattie Bandits, stole over a thousand potato scones to hand out at George Square on Monday.
The group piled the stolen potato scone packets into a Trolley which they placed in the town square with a sign attached reading “Free Tattie Scones”.
The organisation has called the hand-outs ‘redistributive action’ against a hike in food prices, and said that this particular action aimed to protest the rise in price of potato products.
The action comes just days after the group claims to have stolen another 1,200 potato scones on Friday to hand out in the city centre.
This is Rigged are demanding that supermarkets slash the price of baby formula, and are appealing to the Scottish government to set up one community food hub for every 500 households.
In an anonymous statement issued at the weekend, This is Rigged said: “We are asking for the bare minimum: our inalienable human right to baseline food security; but we are also asking for dignity.”
The activist network has said that they will continue to escalate actions until their demands are met.
Thalia Groucott, communications officer at the Glasgow Food Policy Partnership, said: “The creation of food hubs is a legitimate demand that people want to see. Food policy organisations in Scotland are working on creating similar free and accessible community food projects.”
Whether this is something that the Scottish Government will entertain is another thing.”
