Toronto restaurant shocks vegans protesting meat

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Animal rights activists were horrified this weekend when the co-owner of a Dundas West restaurant they'd been protesting for weeks staged what appeared to be a counter-protest of his own.

The restaurant in question, Antler, is known for serving "local seasonal and wild foods" that are native to Canada, such as bison, boar, rabbit, duck and deer.

They also serve foie gras, which has long been condemned as especially cruel in terms of animal welfare.

A group of local activists had arranged a protest in front of the restaurant on Friday evening, writing on Facebook that it would be their fourth of such protests outside Antler.

"Last week was the first vegan menu board that they've had thanks to activists taking a stand for animals," read the protest event's description.

"It's a great start, but only a start. Antler serves the cruel foie gras, they also farm animals meant to run in the wild like deer.

About an hour into their demonstration, protesters say that the restaurant's co-owner and chef, Michael Hunter, "brought out an entire animal leg and started cutting it up right in the window on a table reserved for diners."

Event organizer Marni Jill Ugar wrote later that night on Facebook that she felt Hunter had been "taunting" the group by cutting up a deer leg right in front of them.

"Once the deer was cooked Michael Hunter, owner of Antler, sat back down at the window to eat the dead deer," she wrote.

"Look in the window. Look at Michael Hunter. That deer was treated like a joke. That deer was an innocent animal who did not want to die."
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https://www.blogto.com/eat_drink/2018/03/antler-restaurant-vegan-protest-toronto/
 
"Once the deer was cooked Michael Hunter, owner of Antler, sat back down at the window to eat the dead deer," she wrote.

Isn't it better that he ate it when it was dead? :)
 
LOL. Good on that owner.

These vegans are a special bunch.
"Look in the window. Look at Michael Hunter. That deer was treated like a joke. That deer was an innocent animal who did not want to die."
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Do polar bears ask the deer that they rip to pieces if they want to get eaten?


After about a minute, Hunter packs up his tools and meat. Both he and the police officers are then seen smiling as they walk away.
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:D
 
konfab said:
LOL. Good on that owner.

These vegans are a special bunch.

Do polar bears ask the deer that they rip to pieces if they want to get eaten?



:D
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Do polar bears force wild deer into captivity for breeding and preventing any escape before ripping them to pieces? Do polar bears force feed deer for months to create a fatty liver before ripping them to pieces? Interesting...
 
C4Cat said:
Do polar bears force wild deer into captivity for breeding and preventing any escape before ripping them to pieces? Do polar bears force feed deer for months to create a fatty liver before ripping them to pieces? Interesting...
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They do far worse.

Mature bears tend to eat only the calorie-rich skin and blubber of the seal, which are highly digestible,[90] whereas younger bears consume the protein-rich red meat.
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The polar bear's most common hunting method is called still-hunting:[89] the bear uses its excellent sense of smell to locate a seal breathing hole, and crouches nearby in silence for a seal to appear. The bear may lay in wait for several hours. When the seal exhales, the bear smells its breath, reaches into the hole with a forepaw, and drags it out onto the ice. The polar bear kills the seal by biting its head to crush its skull. The polar bear also hunts by stalking seals resting on the ice: upon spotting a seal, it walks to within 90 m (100 yd), and then crouches. If the seal does not notice, the bear creeps to within 9 to 12 m (30 to 40 ft) of the seal and then suddenly rushes forth to attack.[85] A third hunting method is to raid the birth lairs that female seals create in the snow
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In Svalbard, polar bears were observed to kill white-beaked dolphins during spring, when the dolphins were trapped in the sea ice. The bears then proceeded to cache the carcasses, which remained and were eaten during the ice-free summer and autumn.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear#Hunting_and_diet
 
Foie gras is a luxury food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been specially fattened. By French law, foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by force-feeding corn with a feeding tube, a process also known as gavage. In Spain and other countries, it is occasionally produced using natural feeding. Ducks are force-fed twice a day for 12.5 days and geese three times a day for around 17 days. Ducks are typically slaughtered at 100 days and geese at 112 days.
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This is gross.
 
Toxxyc said:
Almost par for the course for 99% of your supermarket meats tho.
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Not really. Foie Gras goes well over the line for humane treatment of animals. Of course the French have it in law exactly what level of cruelty must be achieved for culinary perfection.
 
"Look in the window. Look at Michael Hunter. That deer was treated like a joke. That deer was an innocent animal who did not want to die."
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Eating and not wasting food is no joke. Death is inevitable for us all.
 
konfab said:
Not really. Foie Gras goes well over the line for humane treatment of animals. Of course the French have it in law exactly what level of cruelty must be achieved for culinary perfection.
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Which is why I said "almost". The described method is not right, I agree (coming from a meat lover and dedicated hunter), but we shouldn't be so quick to judge vegans as incorrect when things in a similar fashion are done to our supermarket meats to get fatter drumsticks, more tender cuts of steak, etc. etc. Educate, and then we can judge.

PS: Not defending the vegans at all, by the way. Mr Hunter made me LOL.
 
Ah flip. I was just in Toronto a week ago.

Next time I'm there I'll grab a quick burger or something :D

tbh though Albertan beef is pretty good. Almost as good as what we get here
 
Toxxyc said:
Which is why I said "almost". The described method is not right, I agree (coming from a meat lover and dedicated hunter), but we shouldn't be so quick to judge vegans as incorrect when things in a similar fashion are done to our supermarket meats to get fatter drumsticks, more tender cuts of steak, etc. etc. Educate, and then we can judge.
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You can approach the whole matter from a sane perspective of humane treatment of animals. That is not what vegans do when they screech meat is murder.
 
I'm vegetarian but those protestors deserved what they got. Don't go poking your long noses into another guys business and your "feelings" won't get hurt.
 
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