Baby barred from veggie restaurant [Mom fed baby chicken]

Electronic Telegraph ^ | 17/09/2003 | Richard Savill

[aculeus]

A mother was asked to leave a vegetarian restaurant after she gave her 11-month-old son a jar of chicken baby food.

Sarah Graham was told it was "offensive" to feed her baby Joshua the Heinz meal.

She opened the jar of vegetables, rice and chicken after ordering lunch for herself and her eight-year-old son at the Rendezvous restaurant in Aberystwyth, west Wales.

She said she was asked to leave after asking the restaurant staff to warm up the jar.

"I've never heard anything so ridiculous in all my life. It was not as if I had brought in a whole roast chicken and started carving," said Mrs Graham, 39.

"I was a vegetarian for 20 years but it doesn't mean that my baby has to eat only that way as well.

"The manageress said she was worried about contamination. But I brought my own spoon - there is no way it could contaminate anything."

The restaurant's owner, Maggie Cotton, said: "When the woman asked for the baby food to be heated we refused, but purely because of possible contamination of food.

"I was very polite when I told her that we were offended by her bringing baby food containing meat into the restaurant. I simply stood by my beliefs. We often get families in and we gladly give them vegetarian food for the baby."

A spokesman for the Vegetarian Society said: "We would support the restaurant owner in her stance."

[wimpycat]

I bet you could clear the place out by taking a Big Mac in there.

[.cnI redruM]

I'll accept the proposition that a lot of Vegans are tin foil hat-wearing Dorkmiesters with an Oak Leaf Cluster, but the fact remains that she was on their property....

[Truth666]

This story seems to be from the same feather as the one about the man sentenced to jail for killing his dog because he believed his dog was gay ...

[weegee]

If she had fixed the baby a dish using the placenta, these anti-meat types would have been much more tolerant.

[wimpycat]

So? They should put up a sign saying, "No meat products allowed on premises" or "Don't contaminate our precious bodily fluids with your toxic baby food." That way reasonable people will know they are entering the Twilight Zone.

[SouthernFreebird]

LOL...now thats what you'd call a big mac attack.

[FormerLib]

Damned intolerant bunch, those vegetarians!

Better not try that on a poofter! (Well, they do kinda eat meat, right?)

[Nov3]

Hell it is their business. They can ban who they want.

[ambrose]

I guess none of you believe in property rights?

[.cnI redruM]

That would be polite, but 40 year old Vegans who bathe once a month whether they need to or not, occasionally lack nuanced manners and refinement. The fact that they have enough hair under their arms to make into a shag throw rug in no way invalidates their rights to property.

Now of course standing across the street with a philly cheesesteak sub and waving to the customers as they walk through the door is an acceptable form of protest against their ineluctable stupidity.

[CyberCowboy777]

Private Property

The owner can kick out whomever she likes. Even stupid vegan owners! lol!

[SouthernFreebird]

Hell it is their business. They can ban who they want.

Really!!! they can ban black people...muslims....anyone they want, well you learn something everyday.

[ambrose]

check out the usual ignorant bashing vegetarians...

[NathanR]

She said she was asked to leave after asking the restaurant staff to warm up the jar.

She couldn't have just given the kid cold chicken, she had to rub the staff's nose in it by asking them to actually warm the chicken. LOL If I had been on the staff I would have asked her to leave too. (BTW I am a typical omnivore.)

[CyberCowboy777]

Are you a vegan?

I agree with you; this is a Property Rights Issue.

[joesnuffy]

yeah ..that's why they make "Placenta Helper"

[ambrose]

vegetarian, but not vegan.

[wimpycat]

I don't deny any restaurant owner's right to kick out anybody they please, for any reason.

I just think it shows how fanatical Vegans are. It's a religion with them. And talk about narrow-minded and bigoted....

Forget standing across the street with a philly cheesesteak. I'd get a group of guys to stand outside on the sidewalk near the windows, eating barbecue and shishkebobs.

[NewHampshireDuo]

Isn't a human being (aka animal) just walking into the store enough to "contaminate" it?