Liberal Vegans Protest Meat Loving Chef, So He Gives Them Lesson On BUTCHERING They'll
Never Forget.
Militant vegan and animal rights protesters targeted Toronto's Antler Kitchen & Bar
for three months before proprietor Michael Hunter lost his cool.
After months of disrupted business and chants outside of "you're a murderer," and
"you've got blood on your hands," Hunter chose to wage his own protest by butchering
deer meat in the front window.
Antler Kitchen & Bar is known for its wild game-themed menu featuring fares such as boar,
rabbit, deer, and bison.
According to the restaurant's website, Hunter uses "every part of the animal."
Hunter, a co-owner, is both a hunter and forager.
In addition to a pair of antlers that hang from the kitchen window from the first buck
Hunter killed, the restaurant is also decorated with photos of wild leeks and morel mushrooms
foraged by Hunter and his business partner, Jody Shapiro.
Hunter's family lives on meat that is almost entirely wild, hunting deer, duck, and wild
turkey.
Unfortunately, those same meats cannot be served in Ontario restaurants according to
current laws.
Despite this, Antler's menu demonstrates Hunter's opposition to factory farming and
a belief in the necessity of using all parts of the animal.
Tougher cuts of the whole boar are braised and other parts are made into charcuterie
and sausage.
A terrine made from the head and the belly is smoked.
Pasture-raised venison is served as a stew, boasting Moroccan spices, house-made tahini,
and couscous, the roasted rack mounted on top.
Friendly competition exists between the restaurants on the block, most notably the Federal just
a few doors down.
The two businesses have a friendly rivalry where they trash talk each other's burgers
and make food jokes.
The Federal is known for its vegan and vegetarian fare.
Stemming from that friendly rivalry, one day in December and Antler employee wrote on the
sandwich board outside of Hunter's establishment, tongue in cheek – "Venison is the new
kale."
Vegans promptly lost their minds.
Hunter states of the message – "There was no offense meant.
I'm not trying to promote a meat diet.
I have a lot of respect for the vegan diet because I know how hard it is."
Yet offense was taken.
Enter animal rights protester Marni Ugar.
Ugar runs a local dog walking business called A Bark in the Park and she noted the sign
while walking by.
In turn, she promptly arranged a demonstration on December 7 on the block full of restaurants
and a butcher shop just across the street from the Antler.
Ugar claims she targeted the Antler specifically to teach Hunter a lesson, claiming she intended
to debunk the myth that raising animals in pastures free from hormones and antibiotics
is more ethical than factory farming.
Ugar states – "People feel like they're doing the right thing by going there.
That they're eating ethical meat."
Ugar describes the first event as "small and peaceful" with a group of eight gathered
in front of the Antler on a Thursday evening holding signs with varying degrees of the
same message – "speciesism = discrimination = injustice."
Yet this did not end with a single event but instead grew louder and larger with animal
activists and militant vegans chanting with megaphones outside the restaurant and attempting
to block diners from entry over the course of the winter.
Realizing that simply ignoring the protesters was not working, Hunter attempted to promoted
vegan selections also available inside the Antler on his sandwich board outside – offerings
such as mushroom yakitori, sweet potato gyoza, vegan lumpia held no appeal for the protesters
it seems.
After 3 months, walk-in traffic was down and attempts to hold any sort of meaningful discussion
with the protestors failed.
Ugar wanted more and instead demanded the restaurant go fully vegan, stating – "The
goal always is for a restaurant to go fully vegan, to reduce the animals they kill, for
me, isn't good enough."
Hunter stated of the protests – "I've left every time they came because it's so
upsetting.
I just felt helpless.
It's hurting our business.
I hoped it would fizzle out and go away."
But on Friday, March 23, Hunter was fed up and he was at his limit of hearing the shouts
of "MURDERER" reverberate through the restaurant each and every time the door opened.
He then walked to the kitchen and retrieved a cutting board, knife, and a hindquarter
of deer.
He then proceeded to sanitize the table and cut up the deer while the animal rights activists
and militant vegan protestors looked on in horror.
Hunter stated of his decision to butcher a deer in the window and how it came about – "This
is who we are and what we do.
They're offending us; I'm going to offend them.
So I went and got a deer leg.
When I was finished, I cleaned the area down and I went back to the kitchen.
At the time, I felt like I had stood up for myself."
It seems Ugar's efforts have not gone unnoticed and they have in fact made a change in Hunter's
business.
Since videoes of Hunter's protest butchering the deer leg were posted online and have gone
viral, the restaurant has seen a direct impact with a significant uptick in business and
in reservations.
It seems many approve of Hunter's means of standing up for himself in the face of
the militant vegans and animal rights activists with their bullying tactics.
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