Vegan activists threatened a restaurant in the United
Kingdom over its Valentine’s Day menu. Mark Dixon, the award winning chef at
Kings Arms at Fleggburgh, decided against offering the expensive dish during
Valentine’s Day dinner this year after being subjected to “harassment,”
apparently even including death threats,
the Guardian reported recently. Dixon posted the Valentine’s Day menu on
Facebook in January. At a cost of 50 pounds per diner, potential guests were
invited to indulge in a specialty tasting menu that included vodka cured
salmon, grilled halibut, Foie Gras and chicken liver parfait. The last two items in particular drew the ire
of activists (because the fowl are deliberately overfed), resulting in the
restaurant being bombarded with calls, threats and fake reservations.
“We
have listened to every opinion but when people go as far as ringing our staff,
constantly, calling them murderers and death threats we class this as
harassment and also inhumane to humans on the vegans behalf, and completely
disgusting and unacceptable,” read a Kings Arms Facebook post shortly
thereafter. “To stop this unfair behavior on our staff we have decided to
remove the Foie Gras from the menu and apologize to all of our customers who
enjoy our parfait dish.”
You can
be sure these same vegans and vegetarians who threatened to kill this
restaurant’s employees for the crime of serving Foie Gras never got close to
working up this much indignation over recent Islamic terror attacks.
Perhaps
it’s true…you are what you eat. These “activists” have certainly consumed more
than their fair share of vegetables… and nuts.
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