Toronto Chef Responds to Vegan Protesters by Carving a Deer Carcass in Front of Them

LegalInsurrection.com ^ | 3-28-2018 | Mike LaChance

[servo1969]

The chef and co-owner of a Toronto restaurant named “Antler” has shown the world a new way to deal with vegan protesters. After days of being bothered by strict vegetarians hanging around outside his establishment, he brought part of a deer carcass to the front window and carved it in front of them.

A Toronto based site called blogTO reported:

Toronto restaurant shocks vegans protesting meat

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…

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.

The report says police showed up and went inside the restaurant to find out what was going on but left smiling. If that’s not a happy ending, I don’t know what is.

Watch the video in the tweet below:

Vegan protesters were shocked after a #Toronto chef responded to their protest by carving up an animal right in front of them https://t.co/CY0zU0a1By pic.twitter.com/Mj04bnzxVp

— blogTO (@blogTO) March 27, 2018

As you can probably imagine, this garnered some great responses on Twitter:

A Toronto chef responded to vegan protesters by carving up meat in front of them. The protesters wanted to be outraged but they were too tired and malnourished.

— Matt Fernandez (@FattMernandez) March 27, 2018

In response to the #vegan #Toronto hissy fit over some window deer butchery … I submit this. Sous vide pork spare ribs ready for the bbq pit with a ginger cayenne and fiesta fajita seasoning rub ???????????????? pic.twitter.com/SJRmq9Movu

— just me filch (@1FilchFelonious) March 28, 2018

Someone in Toronto give him a trophy for this savage move.https://t.co/7PiVvtqLKT

— The Cad Club (@thecadclub) March 27, 2018

Everything about this makes me to eat here now. I would like to personally thank the protesters for advertising this establishment. I did not know a place like this existed. I also hope those nice police officers had a good lunch. ???? https://t.co/y4WiVvjCq2

— Disgruntled Hopeful™ (@LeafsLostSoul) March 27, 2018

I’m not saying he’s a hero…. but he’s a hero. https://t.co/tKa36AKDC5

— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) March 27, 2018

[Vaquero]

https://youtu.be/xkR2XEYEFgk

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[cnsmom]

My dad was a hunter and would hang the dead deer in the backyard from a tree. I admit it took some getting used to but he was a great chef I love venison.

[shoff]

Stick that in your tufo and eat it!

[Labyrinthos]

Here’s the menu: http://www.dine.to/menus/menu_177774_document.pdf

[servo1969]

A Toronto chef, apparently exasperated at an animal rights protest outside his restaurant, carried what appeared to be 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.

As he worked, one of the protesters videoed the scene and gave frantic commentary: “To taunt the activists,” said the man behind the camera in a video posted online and picked up by BlogTO, “he has brought the leg of a recently murdered deer to this dining area.”

Michael Hunter, the chef and owner of Antler Kitchen and Bar, didn’t look at the protesters, didn’t say anything. Some police officers on hand for the protest entered the restaurant to speak with him - though Toronto police deny they asked him to stop what he was doing. “It’s his restaurant he can do what he wants, really,” Sgt. Philip Townley said.

Hunter finished cutting, put the meat in a pan and headed back to the kitchen. In half an hour or so, he returned with an impressively seared steak — perhaps of the same venison he had butchered — on a white plate, unaccompanied. It was the middle of Friday night dinner service, just after 8 p.m., and here was the chef, at the front of the restaurant, sitting alone and eating.

“It shocked me,” said protest organizer Marni Ugar. “It made me feel really sad.”

“For me it’s just an animal and it’s an animal that didn’t want to die.”

Ugar didn’t know what to make of it. She couldn’t tell whether her string of regular protests had finally taken its toll on the chef. It was about the fifth time protesters had gathered outside Antler on Dundas Street West, chanting slogans like “Antler has blood on their hands” and holding signs that say Murder. (The initial intent was to stage weekly protests starting in December, after a sandwich board reading Venison is the New Kale drew the ire of activists, though cold weather dashed those plans.)

“We were obviously getting to him,” Ugar said, “because we’re impacting his business by standing on the sidewalk. I assume — I actually can’t know — this was his way of getting revenge on us.”

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Like a boss.

[Altura Ct.]

This is fricken great!

[servo1969]

To Canada’s most urbane city comes a restaurant with a menu that is rural to its roots. Owned by Chef Michael Hunter and Jody Shapiro, Antler aims to celebrate the wild culinary delights of Canada.

Red Seal Executive Chef Michael Hunter has shaped Antler around an authentic creation of his food, cooking style and philosophy. Having grown up in the Canadian Outdoors, his use of regional ingredients and dishes reflect the Canadian Terroir. Antler taps the tastes, flavours and aromas of our glorious near-north.

[V_TWIN]

Same with atheists. It’s not enough they have the right not to believe, They don’t like that those that do believe have that right to.

[servo1969]

Brunch Menu
http://www.dine.to/menus/menu_177773_document.pdf

Dinner Menu
http://www.dine.to/menus/menu_177774_document.pdf

[V_TWIN]

SASKATOOOOOOOOON!!

[V_TWIN]

“Once the deer was cooked Michael Hunter, owner of Antler, sat back down at the window to eat the dead deer,”

Kinda hard to eat a live one, they tend to move around a little.

[SandRat]

I AGREE!!!

[DaveA37]

Fight fire with fire. Or better yet, fight unison with venison.

[Daffynition]

I love this Canadian chef and other Canadians, eh?

[FES0844]

I would have preferred a pig be carved & roasted.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Semper Fi! By your handle I’m guessing you were intel? S-2?

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"We were obviously getting to him"

You protestors aren't getting to him, he's making fun of you and getting inside your head!! He's living there rent free!!!

[SandRat]

THAT’S BETTER THAN WHEN SOME KENTUCKIANS THREW SOME KFC BONES AT THEM!

[kelly4c]

I don’t know why but lately it kind of grosses me out.

lifelong meat-eater