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Baby barred from veggie restaurant [Mom fed baby chicken]
Electronic Telegraph ^ | 17/09/2003 | Richard Savill

Posted on 09/18/2003 4:29:07 PM PDT by 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."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: animalrights; antimeatnazis; denialofservice; europe; killakiddotcom; peta; restaurants; vegans; vegetarians; wales
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1 posted on 09/18/2003 4:29:08 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: aculeus
I bet you could clear the place out by taking a Big Mac in there.
2 posted on 09/18/2003 4:32:24 PM PDT by wimpycat (Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
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To: aculeus
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....
3 posted on 09/18/2003 4:33:35 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (There are two certainties. Death and Texas.)
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To: aculeus
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 ...
4 posted on 09/18/2003 4:33:57 PM PDT by Truth666
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To: aculeus
If she had fixed the baby a dish using the placenta, these anti-meat types would have been much more tolerant.
5 posted on 09/18/2003 4:34:49 PM PDT by weegee
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To: .cnI redruM
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.
6 posted on 09/18/2003 4:37:06 PM PDT by wimpycat (Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
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To: wimpycat
LOL...now thats what you'd call a big mac attack.
7 posted on 09/18/2003 4:41:27 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird (constipated people don't give a crap.)
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To: aculeus
Damned intolerant bunch, those vegetarians!

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

8 posted on 09/18/2003 4:41:44 PM PDT by FormerLib (There's no hope on the left!)
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To: aculeus
Hell it is their business. They can ban who they want.
9 posted on 09/18/2003 4:42:26 PM PDT by Nov3
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To: All
I guess none of you believe in property rights?
10 posted on 09/18/2003 4:42:49 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: wimpycat
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.
11 posted on 09/18/2003 4:45:17 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (There are two certainties. Death and Texas.)
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To: aculeus
Private Property

The owner can kick out whomever she likes. Even stupid vegan owners! lol!
12 posted on 09/18/2003 4:45:46 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0 .............................................. 0 rows returned)
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To: Nov3
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.

13 posted on 09/18/2003 4:49:53 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird (constipated people don't give a crap.)
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To: doug from upland
check out the usual ignorant bashing vegetarians...
14 posted on 09/18/2003 4:50:57 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: aculeus
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.)

15 posted on 09/18/2003 4:52:40 PM PDT by NathanR (California Si! Aztlan NO!)
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To: ambrose
Are you a vegan?

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

16 posted on 09/18/2003 4:56:56 PM PDT by CyberCowboy777 (SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0 .............................................. 0 rows returned)
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To: weegee
yeah ..that's why they make "Placenta Helper"
17 posted on 09/18/2003 4:57:27 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: CyberCowboy777
vegetarian, but not vegan.
18 posted on 09/18/2003 4:58:57 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: .cnI redruM
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.
19 posted on 09/18/2003 4:59:20 PM PDT by wimpycat (Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
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To: aculeus
Isn't a human being (aka animal) just walking into the store enough to "contaminate" it?
20 posted on 09/18/2003 5:00:20 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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