Posted on 01/05/2025 5:09:38 AM PST by dennisw
'One year ago, we faced tremendous challenges and they made the difficult decision to sell their home in hopes of breathing new life into Sage.
'We all poured our passion into shifting the concept to regenerative agriculture, but despite our efforts, we find ourselves in the same predicament today.
'Sunday, January 5th will be our final day of service. We invite you to visit us during our last week. Please share your favorite memories with us; they mean the world.
'Thank you for 14 incredible years of support. With love from the Sage family, Mollie & Elias, we say goodbye.'
Outraged activists have taken aim at a famed vegan restaurant chain which has announced it will close all locations after adding meat to the menu one year ago.
Sage Regenerative Kitchen & Brewery boasts restaurants across California and was once a leader in the plant-based casual dining experience.
Originally known as Sage Vegan Bistro, chef and owner Mollie Engelhart then rebranded last year whilst outlining a change in operations.
Engelhart renamed the chain and added a range of animal products to the menu.
The decision to do so was widely criticized and met with protests from vegan activists who even formed an angry mob outside one of the restaurants.
An announcement earlier this week that the restaurants are set to close has come much to the delight of former clientele who continued to blast the move.
In a statement to Instagram, the company said: 'As we reflect on the journey that began back in 2011, we remember Mollie and Elias at the farmers market, gathering the freshest farm-to-table produce (long before they were a couple).
'Over the past 14 years, their unwavering commitment to quality food and supporting local farmers has been the heartbeat of our restaurant.
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A few years ago, there was a Russel Crowe movie called “Land of Bad”.
I thought one of the best jokes from the movie was:
Q: How do you know someone is vegan?
A: They’ll tell you.
As an aside, I’m currently pre-diabetic, so I’m carefully monitoring ingredients lists for added sugar. I went to the store yesterday and picked up my usual canned veggies, and discovered that the Great Value canned sweet peas contained peas, water, SUGAR and salt. Huh???
The unsalted version had no added sugar either, so I got those instead.
They would have to use seed oils. They can’t use beef tallow.
That was patently obvious.
No sympathy whatsoever for the owner or the patrons both killing that state.
If those ‘dedicated’ vegans were disturbed by the closings and the meat on the menu, they should have offered to double or triple the amount they were used to paying. There is nothing wrong with a vegan restaurant charging cost + 10%. If it is a business, it has to be profitable to remain so. If the vegan customers are unwilling to pay for this, then they don’t deserve them.
Purists always insist on being able to bully you.
Anyone should have been OK with vegan and non-vegan items on a menu. I see that alla time out here in CaCaLand.
Pi$$ off, vegans.
Worst of all is a vegan Linux user who rides a bicycle.
He is probably lying. Maybe business was way down but the new minimum wage is the last knife.
“hasn’t agriculture pretty much established that it is “regenerative” and “sustainable” (to use that other annoying term)??”
Absolutely not. Dumping massive amounts of man-made nitrogen fertilizer, phosphorus and potassium into deep tilled top soil that washes away into the rivers taking not only thousands of years worth of topsoil with it but also all those man-made ffertilizers. Both of which cause lasting and real damage to the watershed and oceans. The Gulf of Mexico huge anoxic dead zone is 100% caused by fertilizer run off down the Mississippi River system.
It takes thousands of years for topsoil to form and deep till farming is causing it’s loss at a horrific rate. Open Google then ,Google scholar and ask Gemini about topsoil losses. Then ask Gemini about fertilizer run off and toxic algae blooms and anoxic dead zones. No part of modern mechanized agriculture is sustainable ,from the petrochemical based fertilizers to the deep till farming, to huge amounts of pesticides and glycophosphates every aspect of it is polar opposite of regenerative agriculture.
___You forgot to add that other annoying term, “resilient.”___
The least resilient people and businesses, are invariably called “resilient”.....How about “passionate”? What a hackneyed word. “Robust” was excessively used for software and electronics, but has faded.
Exactly right...niche businesses like this one can't afford to stay open.
Maybe with the exception of Oliver Wendell Douglas.
Wanna bet not a single “activist” ever ate at that restaurant? Being a vegan restaurant aside 14 years is a good run for any restaurant. But being a specialized menu their prices must have been insane for what you got. Add to that the ridiculous burdens imposed by Commiefornia and it is a wonder any restaurants stay in business there.
I get the biggest belly laugh when people who live in CA earthquake zones talk about “sustainable” development.
The only way they could ever learn is the hard way.
I bet none of those angry activist vegans ever even ate at the restaurant. Read their nasty comments at the story.
“We really are depleting our soils of minerals, worldwide.”
Ask the propagandists of the myth to cite which mineral is “depleted” and all they can come up is one or two dubious examples of trace minerals like selenium, based on anecdotal evidence.
And of course, they sweep under the rug any massive and incontrovertible evidence that contradicts their narrative, such as the yields increase year after year in all countries with modern and highly intensive agriculture while the use of fertilizers tend to DEcrease! In Europe for example, phosphorus fertilizer use per hectare has been divided by more than 3 (!) over the last 50 years, yet yields per hectare have more than doubled. The same trends are in the US and elsewhere. How do you explain this if the soils were depleted? Of course, you can’t, if you are a rational person.
Entrees average around $27. Dinner for four would be well over $100. No thanks.
They changed the menu after they had to sell their house to keep things afloat.
Yeah until mansanto came along and corporate farming destroyed the regeneration aspect of the past millennia
For them it’s not food it’s a cause. It doesn’t just fill the stomach, it’s an emotional catharsis - defines whether they’re a good or bad person.
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