Rex Murphy: Cheers for the meat-eating hero who took on 'privileged' vegan bullies

[OnlinePoker]

To set the scene, let’s go with the first paragraph (slightly) edited from a National Post story with the fetching headline “Toronto chef butchers, eats deer leg in front of animal rights protesters outside his restaurant.”

“A Toronto chef … exasperated at an animal rights protest outside his restaurant … carried a leg of raw venison to the front windows facing the sidewalk. As the protesters watched, he took a knife and began separating the meat from the bone.” Deliciously, the story continues with the account of how an hour later, the chef returned to those same front-facing windows, plonked down his plate and tucked into a seared steak with great relish and gusto, on full display to his dismal tormentors.

Let us salute a hero of our times: Michael Hunter, owner-chef of Antler Kitchen and Bar, Toronto. Let me go further: Jordan Peterson, wherever you are on this twirling, politically correct, cringingly apologetic globe, come home soon and eat, defiantly (go for the deer tartar) at Antler!

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-cheers-for-the-meat-eating-hero-who-took-on-privileged-vegan-bullies

[Hortensis]

1. :) He was definitely entitled to fight back.

But for every pinhole-narrow-minded vegan zealot are dozens (hundreds?) of nice, hungry vegans who are used to not finding acceptable dishes at both private and public gatherings.

I'll never be a vegan, and having them and their recipes crop up in unrepresentative numbers on every food/foodie site is mildly irritating, but... Just to keep things in perspective, they're very much a minority and only a small fraction of those are harassing nuisances.

And a relative is heading that direction, which is why I'm speaking up for them. Because of her, these days any crowd menu I put together includes a significant vegan side (that everyone hopefully will like) so no one need go away hungry. That's in addition to the usual sweet and cheese dishes for their addicts, green and/or lean for weight watchers, and medical for people with heart and kidney problems. (Our acquaintances tend to average older.)

Acceptance of differences.

[OnDoutside]

4. I have no problems with their choices, my objection is their insistence they

rest of us go that way too. Well they can go f themselves. I love meat and that's not going to change, especially coated in BBQ, Curry or pepper sauce ! I had crispy chicken in a dry spicy sesame sauce with fried egg rice earlier....drool

[Iggo]

6. Gosh, how special.

[OnDoutside]

7. mmmmm, yup !

[Iggo]

9. Keep on proving it!

You're doing a bang-up job!

[LakeArenal]

2. Not sure who the bullies are...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. My goodness, Rex Murphy is tiresome.

And I say that as someone who thinks Hunter's actions were well played. Hunter has also developed a vegan tasting menu, but of course no mention of that from Murphy.

[Iggo]

5. Gosh, how special. He sure showed them.

What a dick.

Go Vegans!!!!!

[nini]

10. He'd be a dick if he went to a vegan restaurant and did that

Considering he was inside his own establishment the dicks were the idiots outside.

[Mr. Ected]

8. Eat what you want, worship how you like, live your life in accord with your morals and beliefs

But leave me out of it.