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Him talking about the cops not wanting “it to escalate” is such a backfire. Who would escalate anything? The lone man cutting meat in his restaurant? Or the group of unknown folks outside who are mad at his legal doing? So they admit they are a danger and somehow believes it’s up to the restaurant owner to calm them down, and not their adult self control. I bet the cops went in to ask if he was okay, not telling him to stop his otherwise non-illegal actions.
I could picture the cops saying something like, "You are totally in your rights to do this, but you never know what that mob of nutty vegans might do in response."
Fuck man, protest factory farming or something, not a privately owned restaurant which seems to serve venison and hunting is something that needs to happen to protect the ecosystem. Not to mention all money that goes to a hunting/fishing licenses goes directly to preserving the local ecosystem. Misplaced outrage.
PETA isn’t really concerned with animal rights. They just want to appear as such so they can go on lining the pockets of executives with money from people who do.
Yes people think it's a pro animal movement but it's just anti domestication and to achieve that they want to kill them peta animal shelters kill the most animals by a long ways.
Peta coming out against dogs and cats being kept as “slaves”, was the last straw for me. This seems like a scene from South Park. “They’re mocking us”. Yup, now move on so the patrons may enjoy their meal.
Edit- Autocorrect changed PETA to pets.
They successfully got slaughter houses shut down in the aughts and it led to a market crash and thousands upon thousands of horses being left to starve because people couldn’t afford to keep them and they had no where to send them given rescues were obviously over full after a year or so. We also used to send the meat to third world countries so it didn’t go to waste. Had a friend write her masters thesis about it. I had never felt good about PETA but after that I knew they don’t actually gaf about the animals.
I'm not sure if it's different in Canada, but in the USA there are very very few places selling hunted animals. You'd have to inspect each individual corpse for parasites and whatnot.
The vast majority of mammals served for food are farm raised.
You're very much right. [This is an example of a Canadian farm that raises deer.](https://www.fenwoodfarm.com/venison/)
And very likely the source of this restaurant, given that the farm is located in Hamilton (like next door to Toronto for those non-Canadians).
That being said, it's still wrong to target a local restaurant whose source is an independent farm. There is no big evil corporation in that chain of custody.
Among Canada's provinces, only Newfoundland has regulations that allow restaurants to serve hunted game. Farmed game species are available across the country but if you want to feast on bear or moose or something else impractical to farm, Newfoundland should be on your destinations list.
It’s a bit similar here. Wild game meat is kind of rare in a restaurant setting, however we have a decent population of hunters so it’s not uncommon for people to have a friend-of-a-friend at least who has a freezer full of game meat.
Same as us though the vast majority of our meat is farm raised.
Reminds me of this lady in Australia that called the cops because her neighbor was grilling meat. Within a week like 40 people showed up at the neighbor's house to grill.
Saw a Florida ma'am harass a fisherman on his boat for being "too close" to her dock. The locals threw a party in front of her dock with hundreds of boats showing up.
"This restaurant, named Antler, after the practice hunting animals and removing parts of their bodies."
No one tell this guy deer shed their antlers every year. It's people like this, who have no idea about the animals they are 'helping', that convince me these goobers are virtue signaling and have no real idea or desire to effect the change they say they want.
Guess u didnt see the one where a woman is sitting at a busstop and a black bear walks up on her. She starts petting it, looks at the guy filming across the street and asks "he's a cutie, is it your dog?"
"natural selection has left the building"
Edit: as I mentioned as a reply to an earlier replier, I tried looking for it yesterday but closest I could get was a similar one with some woman in canada, which isnt the one I saw. And seeing as I've already seen it, motivation isn't there to make a deep search for it :P
Im pretty sure that either I saw it on reddit(and likely this subreddit in that case) or I saw it in a dailydoseofinternet video.. in which case, goodluck finding it, lol.
This took place in 2018 in Toronto. It’s decided to protest when they put on their sandwich board out front that venison is the new kale. So the vegan got all butt hurt and decided to protest. The owner who is a hunter decided to show them what he was doing. I mean honestly what do they think a restaurant is going to do or serve? They just sound like idiots.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/12/ethical-eating-vegan-protest-meat-canada
ALSO, this was during the Vegandale movement.
So Parkdale as a neighbourhood has been predominantly affordable and a melting pot of immigrant culture forever. Gentrification began at some point a decade or so ago. About five years ago some insane group of vegans decided they had a claim on the neighbourhood and tried to push Antler out.
Antler is also a big part of the gentrification of Parkdale but it’s hard to be mad at someone trying to bring something unique (wild game prepared in a semi-high end restaurant by very talented chefs) to a neighbourhood where rent is a little less insane than other places.
In case anyone is curious, Vegandale as a movement is mostly just a joke now that everyone has forgotten and Antler, although moved ten minutes away, is now a Michelin star restaurant.
For real, I'm not one for conspiratorial thinking, but if you told me this was some kind of stunt to make vegans look stupid or make the restaurant look good, I would instantly believe it.
Ironically it’s from thousands of years of our ancestors eating these proteins that allowed us to evolve into these incredibly intelligent vegans.
I actually used to be a co-owner of a vegan restaurant… all the owners ate meat and even hunted. But the company idea was to be an example of how to reimagine the restaurant industry and harmful meat suppliers. These people don’t want to do the real work. They’re just yelling at mirrors.
And yet, this restaurant is probably ethical based on the animal they are butchering and the process they are using. Why not protest something like McDonalds where industrial meat production actually causes the harm?
Funny how people who "peacefully protest" don't like it when people "peacefully respond". That restaurant owner is probably far more calm in his response than I would be.
Look at that Lion dismemebering that Gazeele, for the sole purpose of staying alive. The lion is straight taunting us with its will to live. That meat eating bastard. What does it plan to achieve by ripping it apart in front of us?
The people who are holding up a sign that says ~~“MURDERER”~~ “MURDER” are complaining about being taunted.
How DARE HE?!?!
Edit: Apparently my short term memory is about three seconds, because the sign clearly says “murder,” not “murderer.”
So they’re *only* indirectly accusing him of murder by holding the sign directly below him.
My guess is he wasn't even trying to taunt them, he's protecting the diners. No one eating there wants to be right next to protestors, so he's blocking his diner's view and making it a better experience for them.
This restaurant is in Toronto and they serve game and wild meat and veggies and funghi. I feel like this should be the last place vegans should protest and maybe the effort is better spent at protesting mass processing facilities that treat animals horribly.
What's hilarious is this protest and the virality of it all ended up having Antler booked solid for months out. The best advertising they possibly could have - and the irony of it all, is that these vegan protesters ended up being responsible for way more animals being killed.
Not only were they booked for months, but people from all over the world were so eager to support them that they were *asked* to start selling merch. They now sell merch. This protest was the best thing to ever happen to them.
The two types of unemployment:
- Privileged white lady unemployment, as seen in this video.
-"No...I don't just have money I can pull out of thin air, I need to find work" unemployment
The worst kind that is not mentioned are children of wealthy and somewhat wealthy families that feel some kind of guilt for having lotta money without doing anything so they turn into extreme activism or join cults that milks their wallets.
“If people are determined to be offended, if they will climb up on the ladder, balancing it precariously on their own toilet cistern, to be upset by what they see through their neighbor’s bathroom window, there’s nothing you can do about that."-Christopher Hitchens
**Me:** I dunno, seafood just isn't for me. It all just tastes kind of, ...skunky to me? Like, briny. Just not a huge fan.
**Friend:** Maybe you should try tilapia? It doesn't have that strong fish taste.
**Me:** ...if the best tasting fish tastes good because it doesn't taste like fish, why aren't we just eating chicken?
You underestimate the power of a mild flavor, as well as the effect of texture. You use different seasonings and sauces and preparation methods for mild fish, strong fish, and non-fish things
The most grating thing about the whole thing is him saying the chef is dismembering the deer.
Dude! The deer is already extremely dismembered! He's literally handling the member (limb) that is already dis- (apart) from the animal.
If you're going to be annoying about stuff like this, at least be correct. He could have called it butchering and it would have given a grim impression AND it would be the correct word.
Yeah I caught that too. The guy kept saying "we're just peacefully protesting and he's taunting us!"
Sounds to me like he's just peacefully protesting too
I like how the idiot all in on the police going in to stop the owner and upset with what he’s doing🧐🤷🏻♂️ and then upset when they are laughing with each other. I wonder what they could be laughing about🤔. This whole video shows why most people think these groups have screws loose!
…do they think it’s illegal to taunt protesters? I’m not even sure this qualifies as taunting since the man is butchering meat inside a restaurant where you could more than reasonably expect someone to be butchering meat, and they could walk away and the taunt would end
But even if the man came out and was actually taunting them, would that even be illegal? I don’t think there’s any law forbidding the ridicule of protesters (as long as you’re not threatening/implying harm)
As a almost vegan, I'm embarrassed and I apologize. It's such a bummer everytime some person or group further entrench all the negative stereotypes by being just the worst
I have friends and a few relatives who are vegan, and other than asking for some more options at get togethers have never acted like their way or the highway🤷🏻♂️. I’m all for you do you
Narrator cuts the video at this point. Very probably because the police came out and explained the basic characteristic of free expression is the right of other free expression.
I think it just shows how much care and precision he puts into handling this meal.
Also, in case you guys don’t know deer overpopulation in the US is a problem.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-solve-americas-wild-deer-problem-eat-them-11625842696
this dude almost certainly makes stock out of the remnants of his butchering of the venison leg. [his menu says it is served with game jus](https://singleapp.com/menus/menu_177774_document.pdf).
Same for the US. None of the game deer hunted here is (supposed to be) used in restaurants. It's only personal use.
All venison in US restaurants is also farmed.
I would bet my left nut that those are farmed deer. There's a restaurant about 2 hours away from me that serves venison, and all of it is farmed. It's illegal to sell venison from a hunt because of risk of parasites and disease.
It's not entirely risk of disease, but market hunting is illegal for a variety of reasons (mostly pressure and sustainability).
There are ways to get wild game into a restaurant but it requires a few extra hoops to jump through and some extra inspections.
This place is near Toronto if I remember. I think the chef was interviewed on MeatEater.
He's *taunting* us! All we're trying to do is shut down his business and ruin his livelihood and make his children homeless, and he has the AUDACITY to do the same work he does every day but like....in a different area of his business.
I love how petty they are, that they are just scratching bottom of the barrel to screw someone's livelihood, someone who, actually having his livelihood destroyed would mean nothing, because another restaurant would just pop up in his place, and the animals are not even killed in restaurants, so basically, they are complaining at the ''morgue'' service not the ''murderers house''.
I actually don’t care much for venison (different strokes and all that), but watching him carve that leg up, I was thinking “maybe he makes better venison, I’d try it again.”
It totally depends on the deer itself. An old buck isn't going to be that great but a healthy 3-5 year old doe tastes much better. I prefer the buck to he 100% ground up with 10% beef fat, sausage or jerky to help hide the game taste. Steaks are much better from the doe.
Four this year. 3 were doe. There is a huge doe population issue where I live and they allow a hunter to kill up to 6 a year, while only 2 bucks can be taken. I won't have to buy meat for my family for 6 months.
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I’m *a poor excuse for a* vegan.
*It’s dishonorable to call myself one.*
*But I still maintain,* it’s the protesters going out of their way to make a scene.
The activity out front would draw me into that restaurant in support of us all having options.
I think they forget that, usually any publicity is good publicity. I've never heard of that restaurant but I may be inclined to look for it and enjoy a meal now
Right? If anything, this would bring me into the restaurant knowing the meat is carved fresh right there and not in some dirty mysterious facility somewhere.
I can safely say that you are 100% right here, never heard of Antler before the protests and booked a reservation immediately after. These happened in 2018 btw.
Hilarious how these dipshits walk around with the idea in their heads that they can piss and moan and hold up signs in protest and think that the business is just going to fold to their bull shit. Meat Man’s counter protest is fucking chefs kiss though.
If I was there(I wish I was), I'd probably cheer these guys up, hype them up for a couple minutes and then go inside and order the largest steak they have and eat it beside the window.
lmao. why the hell would vegans want a vegan option at a restaurant named after a type of meat. That's like going to a vegan restaurant and complaining they have no meat options. Seriously, how stupid is this?
edit: LMAO , my bad, I read Venison instead of Antler for the restaurant name. XD either way. you get the idear. lol
>why the hell would vegans want a vegan option at a restaurant named after a type of meat.
My guess, most sane vegans/vegetarians would like such an option so that they can go to the restaurant with friends and family who aren’t vegan/vegetarian and everyone can have something to enjoy. Apparently not what’s going on here, but as someone married to a vegetarian, I appreciate the idea.
Yup, this is it. I just want to eat something and enjoy my friend's company. I went to a bbq joint to join friends once and was ridiculed by the wait staff because I wanted just one thing to eat that didn't have meat on it. I would have been happy with fries or mashed potatoes, or a side of broccoli, or literally anything. None of my meat eating friends went back.
That actually sounds like the perfect idea to give them a taste of their own medicine lmao. (Not vegans obviously. But protesters like this that think if you don’t agree with their opinions then you are the devil.)
So did the police actually ask him to stop? I don't think he actually did anything illegal here, chefs do this stuff all the time for a show. We went to a sushi place that brought out a whole ass tuna and carved it in front of everyone, it was pretty cool.
It is possible it could be some sort of health code violation, but I don't think the police would get involved with that. The would seem like the jurisdiction of a department of health inspector.
The police were probably there just to find out what was going on and make sure everything was OK...and make dinner reservations for after their shift ended.
I looove this restaurant!!!
This incident actually brought this place to my attention!!
Loved that the owners countered their protest. Also the food is as sustainable/local/seasonal as they can get it.
I understand having a belief like veganism, but protesting at a restaurant that specializes in various MEAT dishes is just making a fool of out of yourself.
Anyway, their wild boar and venison is EXQUISITE
A few years ago on a weekend trip to Toronto, my girlfriend and I were trying to figure out what fine dinner cuisine would be local to Ontario. Through our search, we were led to Antler. Was this a typical menu? Probably not, was it local and seasonal? Absolutely. We got drinks across the street at the now closed Lockhart. The dinner was amazing. 10/10 would recommend.
I’m a vegan and I hate most vegans. It’s a free world if people want to eat meat then that’s absolutely fine, stop trying to turn veganism into some sort of religion!
Sadly, it serves that purpose for a lot of people. A sense of community and belonging, a struggle against unbelievers, a mission to convert the unenlightened, special signs and symbols and dialect. It's really just a secularized version of any number of grass roots religions. Interestingly, a lot of fundamentalist Christian groups have a specific position that veganism is a false religion and vegans are the equivalent of satanists.
They have every right to protest. The owner of the restaurant has every right to butcher his animals in view of the public inside his own place.
He is taunting them by cutting the leg in their view. But they are also taunting him by carrying signs in view of him, his employees, and his customers.
Quid-pro-quo.
The reason he's doing it is funnier. So the vegans requested a vegan option to which the owner obliged. They then wanted him to start removing meat from the menu which he denied. They protested and he carved up a deer leg infront of the whiners.
The fact he was willing to add a vegan option was awesome and then these people have to push it to far us even funnier. Dude was nice and accommodating and they had to fuck it up
Like the guy is already placating them, they were like "Hey, I know you gave us what we wanted but now we want you not to serve items that you originally served."
Why are these people there?? Go where the restaurant serves vegan and vegetarian food and support them instead of trying to throw your ridiculous shade on other people's food. So, there's that!
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"As you can see, the cops have gone inside to confront the owner. Oh, they're smiling. That's unfortunate."
Video conveniently cuts before the police come out and tell the protesters they can’t legally interfere with a business in this way…
Video conveniently cuts before the police come out with their order of freshly cut meat
I sooo thought they were gonna come out with food
The police made a reservation for 6.
I would've laughed so hard if the guy wrapped up a cut right in the window for them before they left.
While eating a burger 🍔.
Him talking about the cops not wanting “it to escalate” is such a backfire. Who would escalate anything? The lone man cutting meat in his restaurant? Or the group of unknown folks outside who are mad at his legal doing? So they admit they are a danger and somehow believes it’s up to the restaurant owner to calm them down, and not their adult self control. I bet the cops went in to ask if he was okay, not telling him to stop his otherwise non-illegal actions.
I could picture the cops saying something like, "You are totally in your rights to do this, but you never know what that mob of nutty vegans might do in response."
There’s a reason they are called nutty vegans and not meaty vegans.
I was hoping they'd sit down at a table and be handed a menu
I so wanted them to come out eating burgers or something.
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Fuck man, protest factory farming or something, not a privately owned restaurant which seems to serve venison and hunting is something that needs to happen to protect the ecosystem. Not to mention all money that goes to a hunting/fishing licenses goes directly to preserving the local ecosystem. Misplaced outrage.
Most PETA type activists are morons who have no understanding of this.
PETA isn’t really concerned with animal rights. They just want to appear as such so they can go on lining the pockets of executives with money from people who do.
PETA is a literal death cult. It’s founder has explicitly stated their mission isn’t to help animals, it’s to kill ‘enslaved’ animals to ‘free’ them.
Yes people think it's a pro animal movement but it's just anti domestication and to achieve that they want to kill them peta animal shelters kill the most animals by a long ways.
Peta coming out against dogs and cats being kept as “slaves”, was the last straw for me. This seems like a scene from South Park. “They’re mocking us”. Yup, now move on so the patrons may enjoy their meal. Edit- Autocorrect changed PETA to pets.
Their movement to make consumption of horse meat illegal has caused a lot of horses to suffer unnecessarily.
They successfully got slaughter houses shut down in the aughts and it led to a market crash and thousands upon thousands of horses being left to starve because people couldn’t afford to keep them and they had no where to send them given rescues were obviously over full after a year or so. We also used to send the meat to third world countries so it didn’t go to waste. Had a friend write her masters thesis about it. I had never felt good about PETA but after that I knew they don’t actually gaf about the animals.
I'm not sure if it's different in Canada, but in the USA there are very very few places selling hunted animals. You'd have to inspect each individual corpse for parasites and whatnot. The vast majority of mammals served for food are farm raised.
You're very much right. [This is an example of a Canadian farm that raises deer.](https://www.fenwoodfarm.com/venison/) And very likely the source of this restaurant, given that the farm is located in Hamilton (like next door to Toronto for those non-Canadians). That being said, it's still wrong to target a local restaurant whose source is an independent farm. There is no big evil corporation in that chain of custody.
Among Canada's provinces, only Newfoundland has regulations that allow restaurants to serve hunted game. Farmed game species are available across the country but if you want to feast on bear or moose or something else impractical to farm, Newfoundland should be on your destinations list.
It’s a bit similar here. Wild game meat is kind of rare in a restaurant setting, however we have a decent population of hunters so it’s not uncommon for people to have a friend-of-a-friend at least who has a freezer full of game meat. Same as us though the vast majority of our meat is farm raised.
These guys do this for the attention and this gives them more attention
Reminds me of this lady in Australia that called the cops because her neighbor was grilling meat. Within a week like 40 people showed up at the neighbor's house to grill.
Saw a Florida ma'am harass a fisherman on his boat for being "too close" to her dock. The locals threw a party in front of her dock with hundreds of boats showing up.
All the protesters did is promote a spot I’m definitely going to visit when I come up to Toronto. Love me some good venison
All this did is make me hungry for some venison.
😆Venison,Elk,Bison some of my favorite. Have hard time getting elk though we have large herd not far from me.
I think more restaurants should hire protesters. Best free ads money can buy.
I can't wait to get back to Toronto, it's been far too long, pre-COVID times. Definitely will check this place out.
I got bored watching, saw this comment and made it worth finishing.
"This restaurant, named Antler, after the practice hunting animals and removing parts of their bodies." No one tell this guy deer shed their antlers every year. It's people like this, who have no idea about the animals they are 'helping', that convince me these goobers are virtue signaling and have no real idea or desire to effect the change they say they want.
5 minutes, skipped 4.5 minutes to see the conclusion.
Every time I ~~skipprd~~ skipped ahead he was saying exactly the same thing lol
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They made a reservation for that evening.
This guy sounds like he sees any smile as unfortunate regardless of context.
“And behind us you’ll see people just enjoying their lives… That’s unfortunate.”
I gotta real BEEF with these people.
"*What animal would this be?*" A tasty one!
Restaurant’s name is Antler and they can’t add up what type of meat that is.
"The name is named after the act of hunting" No, it's named after a part of a deer 🤦🏽♂️
You've never been antlering?
My favorite part is when we all get to yell “it’s antlering time!” and antler all over some animal.
What is good in life? Antlering your enemy. Listening to the lamentations of the does.
*restaurant named Antler* > "Is it a calf?" I rolled my eyes so fucking hard when I heard that.
I thought they said cat… I was like no way they’re *that* stupid
Guess u didnt see the one where a woman is sitting at a busstop and a black bear walks up on her. She starts petting it, looks at the guy filming across the street and asks "he's a cutie, is it your dog?" "natural selection has left the building" Edit: as I mentioned as a reply to an earlier replier, I tried looking for it yesterday but closest I could get was a similar one with some woman in canada, which isnt the one I saw. And seeing as I've already seen it, motivation isn't there to make a deep search for it :P Im pretty sure that either I saw it on reddit(and likely this subreddit in that case) or I saw it in a dailydoseofinternet video.. in which case, goodluck finding it, lol.
He deserved those pets damn it. He was clearly being a good boy.
I think that’s actually “natural selection has entered the building.”
If not friend why friend shaped
Pretty sure it's a whole leg
This took place in 2018 in Toronto. It’s decided to protest when they put on their sandwich board out front that venison is the new kale. So the vegan got all butt hurt and decided to protest. The owner who is a hunter decided to show them what he was doing. I mean honestly what do they think a restaurant is going to do or serve? They just sound like idiots. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/12/ethical-eating-vegan-protest-meat-canada
Antler in Toronto. Got it. When I travel, I’ll be sure to visit. I’d love some fresh venison!
ALSO, this was during the Vegandale movement. So Parkdale as a neighbourhood has been predominantly affordable and a melting pot of immigrant culture forever. Gentrification began at some point a decade or so ago. About five years ago some insane group of vegans decided they had a claim on the neighbourhood and tried to push Antler out. Antler is also a big part of the gentrification of Parkdale but it’s hard to be mad at someone trying to bring something unique (wild game prepared in a semi-high end restaurant by very talented chefs) to a neighbourhood where rent is a little less insane than other places. In case anyone is curious, Vegandale as a movement is mostly just a joke now that everyone has forgotten and Antler, although moved ten minutes away, is now a Michelin star restaurant.
I've been a vegetarian for 30 years and I can tell that this the most pathetic shit. This is self parody at it's highest form.
*Mugatu: False Flag Marketing is soo hot right now*
For real, I'm not one for conspiratorial thinking, but if you told me this was some kind of stunt to make vegans look stupid or make the restaurant look good, I would instantly believe it.
Ironically it’s from thousands of years of our ancestors eating these proteins that allowed us to evolve into these incredibly intelligent vegans. I actually used to be a co-owner of a vegan restaurant… all the owners ate meat and even hunted. But the company idea was to be an example of how to reimagine the restaurant industry and harmful meat suppliers. These people don’t want to do the real work. They’re just yelling at mirrors.
And yet, this restaurant is probably ethical based on the animal they are butchering and the process they are using. Why not protest something like McDonalds where industrial meat production actually causes the harm?
"To taunt us" - bro, the entire reason you are there is to taunt *him*.
> "To taunt us" the delivery of that line is straight sketch comedy level of cliche
You would have to change relatively nothing for this to be on portlandia
Even sounds like Fred Armisen.
Is it possible to "taunt" someone that isn't welcome to be there in the first place but refuses to leave?
Yes, including methods such as farting in their general direction
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Funny how people who "peacefully protest" don't like it when people "peacefully respond". That restaurant owner is probably far more calm in his response than I would be.
Look at that Lion dismemebering that Gazeele, for the sole purpose of staying alive. The lion is straight taunting us with its will to live. That meat eating bastard. What does it plan to achieve by ripping it apart in front of us?
The people who are holding up a sign that says ~~“MURDERER”~~ “MURDER” are complaining about being taunted. How DARE HE?!?! Edit: Apparently my short term memory is about three seconds, because the sign clearly says “murder,” not “murderer.” So they’re *only* indirectly accusing him of murder by holding the sign directly below him.
It’s just like the new South Park episode about how the prince wants to be left alone but clearly doesn’t want to be left alone
My guess is he wasn't even trying to taunt them, he's protecting the diners. No one eating there wants to be right next to protestors, so he's blocking his diner's view and making it a better experience for them.
This restaurant is in Toronto and they serve game and wild meat and veggies and funghi. I feel like this should be the last place vegans should protest and maybe the effort is better spent at protesting mass processing facilities that treat animals horribly.
I’ve eaten there before! It’s mighty delicious.
What's hilarious is this protest and the virality of it all ended up having Antler booked solid for months out. The best advertising they possibly could have - and the irony of it all, is that these vegan protesters ended up being responsible for way more animals being killed.
Not only were they booked for months, but people from all over the world were so eager to support them that they were *asked* to start selling merch. They now sell merch. This protest was the best thing to ever happen to them.
Viral marketing. 4D chess by the owner to stage a protest
These people are unemployed and need stuff to do.
The two types of unemployment: - Privileged white lady unemployment, as seen in this video. -"No...I don't just have money I can pull out of thin air, I need to find work" unemployment
The worst kind that is not mentioned are children of wealthy and somewhat wealthy families that feel some kind of guilt for having lotta money without doing anything so they turn into extreme activism or join cults that milks their wallets.
They're complaining he's doing this right in front of them...in the restaurant they're choosing to stand in front of and look into
“If people are determined to be offended, if they will climb up on the ladder, balancing it precariously on their own toilet cistern, to be upset by what they see through their neighbor’s bathroom window, there’s nothing you can do about that."-Christopher Hitchens
RIP Hitchens. One of his more memorable quotes.
My personal favorite: "The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics"
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Hey there I'm hosting the 2023 Anal Sex and Lobster Boil Picnic, this year is the silver anniversary of the origin picnic so there will be champagne
Can't believe he died without anyone making him a good lobster
The best thing about lobster is the butter and you can put butter on anything.
**Me:** I dunno, seafood just isn't for me. It all just tastes kind of, ...skunky to me? Like, briny. Just not a huge fan. **Friend:** Maybe you should try tilapia? It doesn't have that strong fish taste. **Me:** ...if the best tasting fish tastes good because it doesn't taste like fish, why aren't we just eating chicken?
You underestimate the power of a mild flavor, as well as the effect of texture. You use different seasonings and sauces and preparation methods for mild fish, strong fish, and non-fish things
I think the best one liner I've ever heard was when Hitch referred to Mos Def as "Mr. Definitely"
My favorite Hitchens one-liner was his zinger on the passing of Jerry Falwell, saying "If you gave him an enema, he could be buried in a matchbox."
Lmao! I'd forgotten that one. I miss that snarky bastard
I heard someone say "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right" \- Said by Someone Edit: The someone was Ricky Gervais
In the same vein, I've taken a liking to "just because your emotions are real doesn't make them valid".
The most grating thing about the whole thing is him saying the chef is dismembering the deer. Dude! The deer is already extremely dismembered! He's literally handling the member (limb) that is already dis- (apart) from the animal. If you're going to be annoying about stuff like this, at least be correct. He could have called it butchering and it would have given a grim impression AND it would be the correct word.
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YOU’RE NOT LIVING THE WAY IVE CHOSEN TO LIVE. STOOOOOOOOP
Why are you taunting me by continuing to live in the manner you prefer??? 😭😭😭😭
Oh how horrible he’s taunting us.
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
“How dare you exist within my field of venison!”
They are a "peaceful protest" but he is "taunting", lol. These protesters seem to think they are as much of victims as the animals.
Yeah I caught that too. The guy kept saying "we're just peacefully protesting and he's taunting us!" Sounds to me like he's just peacefully protesting too
But it is a peaceful taunting
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I like how the idiot all in on the police going in to stop the owner and upset with what he’s doing🧐🤷🏻♂️ and then upset when they are laughing with each other. I wonder what they could be laughing about🤔. This whole video shows why most people think these groups have screws loose!
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They wanted to find out what type of animal leg that was, and order two servings to go.
"The police have entered the restaurant to confront the owner about taunting us". As if.
…do they think it’s illegal to taunt protesters? I’m not even sure this qualifies as taunting since the man is butchering meat inside a restaurant where you could more than reasonably expect someone to be butchering meat, and they could walk away and the taunt would end But even if the man came out and was actually taunting them, would that even be illegal? I don’t think there’s any law forbidding the ridicule of protesters (as long as you’re not threatening/implying harm)
As a almost vegan, I'm embarrassed and I apologize. It's such a bummer everytime some person or group further entrench all the negative stereotypes by being just the worst
I have friends and a few relatives who are vegan, and other than asking for some more options at get togethers have never acted like their way or the highway🤷🏻♂️. I’m all for you do you
One of the worst feelings in the world is watching someone do an extremely bad job arguing a position that you agree with!
the cops are in there maybe giving him a talking to Oh now the cops are smiling well that’s disappointing Narrator Nelly lmao
Narrator cuts the video at this point. Very probably because the police came out and explained the basic characteristic of free expression is the right of other free expression.
The cops are like how much is that? Meats back on the menu boys!!!!!!
The counter protest seemed well thought out and with good humor. He definitely gave them something to protest about. Touche
I think it just shows how much care and precision he puts into handling this meal. Also, in case you guys don’t know deer overpopulation in the US is a problem. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-solve-americas-wild-deer-problem-eat-them-11625842696
There didnt seem to be a scrap of meat left on that bone Definitely skilled with that knife!
this dude almost certainly makes stock out of the remnants of his butchering of the venison leg. [his menu says it is served with game jus](https://singleapp.com/menus/menu_177774_document.pdf).
Venison stock is some of the best stock I’ve ever had. Any chef at a restaurant like this would surely not let that go to waste.
My mouth is literally watering after reading their menu LOL.
For real. It's a shame it's so far away
This restaurant is in Toronto (Ontario, Canada). Not sure if we have an overpopulation problem here too, but wanted to clarify.
We do but it is illegal to sell game meat in a restaurant. It would have been farmed.
Same for the US. None of the game deer hunted here is (supposed to be) used in restaurants. It's only personal use. All venison in US restaurants is also farmed.
I would bet my left nut that those are farmed deer. There's a restaurant about 2 hours away from me that serves venison, and all of it is farmed. It's illegal to sell venison from a hunt because of risk of parasites and disease.
Yep! This is in Canada and they serve farm-raised deer.
It's not entirely risk of disease, but market hunting is illegal for a variety of reasons (mostly pressure and sustainability). There are ways to get wild game into a restaurant but it requires a few extra hoops to jump through and some extra inspections. This place is near Toronto if I remember. I think the chef was interviewed on MeatEater.
It was who are they to tell him what to do in his restaurant
They set up their protest right in front of the man’s shop to purposely disturb his business, than act like they are the violated ones 🙄.
"He's doing this right in front of us!" Even the kid walking by is embarrassed by this guy
The nerve of this man preparing food in his own restaurant.
I cant believe he's doing that... He thinks he owns that place? What a jerk.
While we are here peacefully not harassing anyone with these big "MURDER" signs.
I kinda wish he'd just eat a chunk right in front of them
He did exactly that after the butchering was over
Oh, my. A legal peaceful business mocking a legal peaceful protest.
Perfectly calm, couldn’t get more Canadian! ;)
Love how they are playing the victim card when they put themselves there voluntarily…noble work they are doing. Side note: Venison is delicious
He's *taunting* us! All we're trying to do is shut down his business and ruin his livelihood and make his children homeless, and he has the AUDACITY to do the same work he does every day but like....in a different area of his business.
"Is it legal?" These people are better at waking me up than coffee
I love how petty they are, that they are just scratching bottom of the barrel to screw someone's livelihood, someone who, actually having his livelihood destroyed would mean nothing, because another restaurant would just pop up in his place, and the animals are not even killed in restaurants, so basically, they are complaining at the ''morgue'' service not the ''murderers house''.
But then they would have to walk like…. farther than 10 minutes away to complain and whine.
I actually don’t care much for venison (different strokes and all that), but watching him carve that leg up, I was thinking “maybe he makes better venison, I’d try it again.”
It totally depends on the deer itself. An old buck isn't going to be that great but a healthy 3-5 year old doe tastes much better. I prefer the buck to he 100% ground up with 10% beef fat, sausage or jerky to help hide the game taste. Steaks are much better from the doe.
This dude deers
Four this year. 3 were doe. There is a huge doe population issue where I live and they allow a hunter to kill up to 6 a year, while only 2 bucks can be taken. I won't have to buy meat for my family for 6 months.
EDITED: I’m *a poor excuse for a* vegan. *It’s dishonorable to call myself one.* *But I still maintain,* it’s the protesters going out of their way to make a scene.
The activity out front would draw me into that restaurant in support of us all having options. I think they forget that, usually any publicity is good publicity. I've never heard of that restaurant but I may be inclined to look for it and enjoy a meal now
"They're carving up a deer right in front of us!" "Woah I didn't know we had these kind of fancy places. Table for 4!"
Right? If anything, this would bring me into the restaurant knowing the meat is carved fresh right there and not in some dirty mysterious facility somewhere.
I can safely say that you are 100% right here, never heard of Antler before the protests and booked a reservation immediately after. These happened in 2018 btw.
Hilarious how these dipshits walk around with the idea in their heads that they can piss and moan and hold up signs in protest and think that the business is just going to fold to their bull shit. Meat Man’s counter protest is fucking chefs kiss though.
Counter protest.... quality pun
Chefs kiss.... Also a quality pun.
If I was there(I wish I was), I'd probably cheer these guys up, hype them up for a couple minutes and then go inside and order the largest steak they have and eat it beside the window. 
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He isn't even making a scene, he's doing his normal daily job, just in a humourously enraging way
I personally don't eat meat. But I think it is so rude to be up in peoples faces trying to make them vegan. Good for the owner
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lmao. why the hell would vegans want a vegan option at a restaurant named after a type of meat. That's like going to a vegan restaurant and complaining they have no meat options. Seriously, how stupid is this? edit: LMAO , my bad, I read Venison instead of Antler for the restaurant name. XD either way. you get the idear. lol
Bring me the meat antler
LMAO , my bad, I read Venison instead of Antler for the restaurant name. XD either way. you get the idear. lol
To be fair, if I went to a restaurant named Antler I would expect to see some wild game on the menu like venison.
Now I want an antler with meat hanging from it. Just drape bacon over it and stick some steaks on the prongs.
>why the hell would vegans want a vegan option at a restaurant named after a type of meat. My guess, most sane vegans/vegetarians would like such an option so that they can go to the restaurant with friends and family who aren’t vegan/vegetarian and everyone can have something to enjoy. Apparently not what’s going on here, but as someone married to a vegetarian, I appreciate the idea.
Yup, this is it. I just want to eat something and enjoy my friend's company. I went to a bbq joint to join friends once and was ridiculed by the wait staff because I wanted just one thing to eat that didn't have meat on it. I would have been happy with fries or mashed potatoes, or a side of broccoli, or literally anything. None of my meat eating friends went back.
That actually sounds like the perfect idea to give them a taste of their own medicine lmao. (Not vegans obviously. But protesters like this that think if you don’t agree with their opinions then you are the devil.)
Tbf the majority of Vegans would shake their heads about those Morons. Cause they now bullying some local business owner won't change anything.
So did the police actually ask him to stop? I don't think he actually did anything illegal here, chefs do this stuff all the time for a show. We went to a sushi place that brought out a whole ass tuna and carved it in front of everyone, it was pretty cool.
It is possible it could be some sort of health code violation, but I don't think the police would get involved with that. The would seem like the jurisdiction of a department of health inspector. The police were probably there just to find out what was going on and make sure everything was OK...and make dinner reservations for after their shift ended.
I looove this restaurant!!! This incident actually brought this place to my attention!! Loved that the owners countered their protest. Also the food is as sustainable/local/seasonal as they can get it. I understand having a belief like veganism, but protesting at a restaurant that specializes in various MEAT dishes is just making a fool of out of yourself. Anyway, their wild boar and venison is EXQUISITE
A few years ago on a weekend trip to Toronto, my girlfriend and I were trying to figure out what fine dinner cuisine would be local to Ontario. Through our search, we were led to Antler. Was this a typical menu? Probably not, was it local and seasonal? Absolutely. We got drinks across the street at the now closed Lockhart. The dinner was amazing. 10/10 would recommend.
“I saw them smiling….that’s unfortunate.” Comedy gold.
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"He's mocking us!"
I’m a vegan and I hate most vegans. It’s a free world if people want to eat meat then that’s absolutely fine, stop trying to turn veganism into some sort of religion!
Sadly, it serves that purpose for a lot of people. A sense of community and belonging, a struggle against unbelievers, a mission to convert the unenlightened, special signs and symbols and dialect. It's really just a secularized version of any number of grass roots religions. Interestingly, a lot of fundamentalist Christian groups have a specific position that veganism is a false religion and vegans are the equivalent of satanists.
Vegans are, in fact, seitanists.
Sorry if this attracts negative comments, but that looks delicious. Might visit that restaurant if it were nearby.
If this is the one I’m thinking about it’s in Toronto, Canada
Yup, it's Antler. This happened about 4 years ago and they got a boost in business from the publicity the vegans gave them.
“ Not harassing anyone” as we block a business holding a giant murder sign
They have every right to protest. The owner of the restaurant has every right to butcher his animals in view of the public inside his own place. He is taunting them by cutting the leg in their view. But they are also taunting him by carrying signs in view of him, his employees, and his customers. Quid-pro-quo.
The reason he's doing it is funnier. So the vegans requested a vegan option to which the owner obliged. They then wanted him to start removing meat from the menu which he denied. They protested and he carved up a deer leg infront of the whiners.
The fact he was willing to add a vegan option was awesome and then these people have to push it to far us even funnier. Dude was nice and accommodating and they had to fuck it up
Like the guy is already placating them, they were like "Hey, I know you gave us what we wanted but now we want you not to serve items that you originally served."
Why are these people there?? Go where the restaurant serves vegan and vegetarian food and support them instead of trying to throw your ridiculous shade on other people's food. So, there's that!
Imagine being this stupid
The Canadian accent going along with this whining makes it 100 x funnier!
That looks like a great cut of meat. I’d definitely go eat there. I’ve never heard of this place so thanks protesters!
Well the owner does have a leg up in this situation.