SJS,
I think you or I could more easily manage without meat and leather than a chossid could without a streimel.
And BW, the heilige PETA would love to ban shechita, and complained that an animal was used in an attempt to kill Jews (about the animal). I think we’re in agreement on this.
gavra,
I think your point is that this was not a protest, just removal of a michshol. I think it might have been both, or even just “fun”; I don’t know the perpetrators and can only guess at their true motives.
My point is merely that the same tactics used by two ideologies cannot be compared if one’s ideology is correct and one’s is not.
Pba earlier made reference to Amalek. Any other context would make the idea abhorrent, but it’s a mitzvah, and is correct. I do not want to elaborate here for obvious reasons.