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The vegans planned their protest for the middle of the restaurants busy dinnertime shift.
The group of animal rights activists were incensed that Antler Kitchen & Bar, a locavore restaurant in Toronto that says it highlights regional ingredients, served foie gras and farmed meat meant to run in the wild. So a group of them stood in front last week chanting youve got blood on your hands, and holding a banner that read MURDER in hot pink lettering.
Then came the counterprotest.
Michael Hunter, a chef and co-owner of the restaurant appeared in its window with a raw deer leg and a sharp knife, when he began to carve up the meat in full view of the protesters, some of whom later said they were disturbed for days, according to news reports.
I figured, Ill show them, Hunter told the Globe and Mail. Im going to have my own protest.
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Video shows him cutting up the leg, slicing the red meat away from the bone, as protesters decry the recently murdered deer, and ask police at the protest if what the chef is doing is legal. At one point, the officers enter the restaurant to talk to Hunter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/03/28/the-vegans-came-to-protest-his-restaurant-so-this-chef-carved-a-deer-leg-in-the-window/?utm_term=.10cc505e2387
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)If you do, that is your personal choice.
LenaBaby61
(6,972 posts)SAME here.
And like you, I also feel that if you do it's your right to do so.
Raine
(30,540 posts)but that's my personal choice and I don't concern myself with what others eat. I only get angry and go off on them if they start in on me because I don't eat meat.
still_one
(92,060 posts)their cause
I also feel the same way you do, it is a personal choice
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)the vegans? Big fucking whoop.
Actually this 'chef' should be reported for unsafe food practices.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)middle of the restaurant to serve to his customers or was it just for show? So believe me I'd get the last fuck you one way or another...best believe that.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)O why people don't like animal rights activists. Too many animal rights activists are like religious fundamentalists.
To wit:
Proclaiming how holy they and their beliefs are.
Pushing their beliefs on others, even when told others are not interested.
Proclaiming that others are going to hell or will suffer terrible karma or retribution because they eat or use animal based products.
Just like I don't want to be prosletized to by religious zealots, I do not want to be prosletized to to by animal rights zealots.
And if you got the guy fined I would contribute to help him pay off his fine.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)should too...it's unprofessional and he's the business owner with potentially much more on the line.
The zealots hurt the cause that they are zealoting for. And yes that's a word.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)Ontario restaurants can't serve wild game, the carving was just for show. Unless you're boning up on Canadian health statues, you don't have a say if the man or is not adhering to regs.
Personally, I would've drenched the morons in a bucket of pig blood.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Tarc
(10,472 posts)Can't hear you over the sound of this sausage McGriddle.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)and the environment?
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Without someone shoving their sanctimonious bullshit down their throats
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)How do you think the meat gets off the leg?
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)aikoaiko
(34,161 posts)days I tell you.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,315 posts)as would a Mediterranean restaurant chef slicing bits from the gyros on the spit.
The show is part of the dining experience.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I kill 2-3 a year.
I eat raw heart, liver and other cuts. Small quantities and only on the day of the kill. Human are animals too, you know.
I have vegan friends. They see less to condemn in natural, humanely(as possible) killed meat than commercially farmed meat.
That said, We try to do at least 2 meatless days a week.
However, if my vegan friends showed up to protest my consumption choice, I would be inclined to rub their faces in it. I probably would not cause I try not to be a dick.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)it would be a better Earth...especially cutting down on cow consumption.
I can't even fathom eating raw organs...but next time I want to gorge on chocolate I'll think of this post and I bet that will help curb it.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I do not like corporate animal production and do all I can to only eat animal flesh that I kill or I know where it comes from. Preferably local.
And notice I do not use euphemisms like harvest. I know exactly what I am doing.
I just believe that is part of being human.
I also realize we are both coming from places of extreme privilege...
I can afford to eat really expensive fucking meat, and you(if vegan) have the time and money to research and sustain your lifestyle.
If we were an immigrant living in poverty wages, we would eat whatever we can get.
Have a nice evening.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)would want to eat that. That is not supposed to be how we are raising and killing animals!!
I'm not vegan and I'm pretty sure I can never be - so that ain't happenin'.
I just try to encourage others to eat LESS meat and that is all.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)An unintentional pun!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Eating raw wild pork would border on insanity.
In my opinion, wild venison tartar is way safer than beef tartar from commercial beef.
But to each his or her own. Almost all ancient cultures eat the liver and heart first, normally grilled over a fire. We do the same.
I am a freethinker and do not put any spiritual meaning in the practice which many do. And I respect that.
But I do like feeling the connection with my ancestors.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I don't really see what the big deal was with the restaurant owner. Even though I've been vegetarian for ten or twelve years, I have to side with his stance on wild game. Seems more ethical to me. People get some strange ideas about what to protest.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)CWD and prions are big concerns in Wisconsin
I dont reckon you would find many hunters eating raw meat.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And in an abundance of caution we no longer cut into the spinal column of our deer.
Prion deseases are way scary! But at least I am approaching and age where they are not too much of a threat.
mucifer
(23,466 posts)I wouldn't be so grossed out. I'm a hospice nurse I have seem some horrific cancer wounds. To me what's described is just as gross as deep frying a chicken leg.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)They were disturbed for days.
Not a big meat eater, but I totally get what he did.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)I mean really.
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BlueTsunami2018
(3,480 posts)Seems to have worked.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)From the original article from the Globe and Mail:
Despite the initial satisfaction, Mr. Hunter soon regretted the stunt.
After, I didnt feel good about it. I felt like they got to me and I played into them.
The next day, Mr. Hunter received an e-mail from Ms. Ugar, offering to reduce the frequency of protests to once a month in exchange for an animal-rights sign to be displayed in the window: Attention, animals lives are their right. Killing them is violent and unjust no matter how its done.
Mr. Hunter responded with plans to introduce a vegan tasting menu and an invitation for Ms. Ugars group to join him on a foraging trip.
So far, Ms. Ugar has not responded. Although she said she is thinking it over.
Id always rather have dialogue. I want to sit down. Im not targeting him. Im there to defend animals.
Ms. Ugars efforts have made a change. Since video of the protest and Mr. Hunter butchering the deer leg was posted online, the restaurant has seen a direct impact. Reservation requests are up.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)Awwwww.... poor widdle vegans are upset because dey were "taunted"
What started as a simple protest in downtown Toronto is becoming an international news story this week as more and more people learn of the chef who cut up a deer leg in front of some angry vegans.
Michel Hunter, who co-owns Antler on Dundas West, has become an internet hero of sorts since we first published a story about his bold counter-protest on Monday.
While some have decried the chef for "taunting" vegans, the vast majority of readers have been praising his peaceful, yet impactful method of fighting back against a group of animal rights activists who'd been haranguing Antler's customers for months.
https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2018/03/antler-restaurant-toronto-vegan-protest/
Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)You don't have to, the vegan will be telling everybody.
These people are out of their fucking minds.
No one who isn't involved in their beliefs should have to tolerate this kind of shit.
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Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Then theres another segment that cheer them on. None of them are doing their cause any good.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)This is a religion, and as with any other religion I feel the need to piss off anyone cramming it down our throats.
I would have felt duty-bound to order a couple of cheeseburgers.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)The protesters asked the police if cutting up the recently murder deer was legal
fantase56
(441 posts)demosincebirth
(12,529 posts)Hekate
(90,529 posts)...to any power at all. They want us all to burn in Hell, and are only too happy to hasten the day for us sinners.
The River
(2,615 posts)in Germany, a vegan diet was being pushed by the government. By the end of the war people were cutting up dead horses and roasting rats. Hunger is a powerful motivator. Pray you never have to choose between principles and starving to death.
Kingofalldems
(38,419 posts)OnDoutside
(19,945 posts)part of his service in giving me great food. He also has the tag numbers on a board listing the herd numbers (even the farms) the meat came from.