Cereal Cafe Sparks Angry Protests

A cafe in London the exclusively sells 120 variety of breakfast cereal has become a flashpoint for protest in a city increasingly polarized between rich and poor. 

Last weekend, a crowd of anti-gentrification protesters with flaming torches and pig masks surrounded the cafe and wrote "scum" on the windows. Anti-poverty protesters say the cafe is a symbol of all that's wrong with London's development.

Tony Tavers, an expert at the London School of Economics, said the cereal cafe is "an innocent casualty of a wider struggle for territory in the city."

One-bedroom apartments sell for 500,000 pounds ($750,000) and up, but almost half of children in the local borough, Tower Hamlets, live in poverty.

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