Activists target Montreal resto
Activists turned up Saturday at a restaurant in the Plateau and staged an animal rights protest. The owner of Chez Victoire asks why these protesters are targeting small local establishments, and no answer is floated.
The report also mentions a protest at “a restaurant in Manitoba” – in fact, there was a protest not long before the pandemic broke at the Manitoba restaurant – which is here in town, on St‑Zotique West.
Blork 12:33 on 2021-09-01 Permalink
Sigh. That “Manitoba” thing shows that much of mainstream journalism now takes fact checking about as seriously as your average Podunk blogger does.
qatzelok 17:52 on 2021-09-01 Permalink
Also, the headline stresses that the activists “target Montreal restaurant trying to bounce back from pandemic.”
So because of the pandemic, animals have no rights anymore?
What about humans? Did the pandemic get right of their rights too?
Kate 20:43 on 2021-09-01 Permalink
qatzelok, certain animals never had the right not to be eaten, what are you talking about?
qatzelok 22:32 on 2021-09-01 Permalink
Kate, how dare you disagree with me “just as I’m bouncing back from a pandemic.”
Get it?
ant6n 02:06 on 2021-09-02 Permalink
@q: You should really label your sarcasm, because most of the stuff you write is, uh, surprising, even if supposedly serious
MarcG 08:48 on 2021-09-02 Permalink
“Montreal restaurants target animals trying to bounce back from being bred by humans for their own consumption” or maybe “Montreal restaurants target animal rights activists by serving meat”?
Chris 17:56 on 2021-09-02 Permalink
Why shouldn’t “small local establishments” be protested? Why should one get a pass for being small?
DeWolf 18:26 on 2021-09-02 Permalink
Because it’s arbitrary. And mean-spirited. These protests are vengeful. They aren’t meant to raise awareness or change minds, they’re meant to punish random businesses these activists don’t like. They always target independent restaurants, never McDonald’s or Provigo, places that sell a million times more meat than any neighbourhood restaurant.
Chris 09:31 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
DeWolf, are you sure your (seeming) disagreement with their cause isn’t colouring your view here? What if it was, I dunno, 1960s USA: should pro-civil rights protesters only have targeted large hotel chains that disallowed blacks, or would it be legit to protest outside a mom & pop hotel too?
Ian 09:37 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
Ah Chris, always with the false equivalencies. You remind me of PETA comparing factory farming with the Holocaust. Not a good look.
@ DeWolf – It could also just be a local with a beef (pun intended).
Strategically, though, you are more likely to be able to bully an independent restaurant into changing its menu than a multinational.
By no means do I support this “act of protest”- but that is the obvious tactical reason why small local restaurants are being targeted.
Chris 09:46 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
Ian, please re-read. I wasn’t making an equivalency between human civil rights and animal rights (though these protesters might), I was picking a random protest that I figured DeWolf would be in favour of. I wasn’t even stating any for/against position on this issue.
I’m saying that protesting “small local establishments” is perfectly legit, in general. Let me try another cause you maybe agree with: environmentalism. If both large and small companies are dumping toxins into a river, should protesters only march outside the large companies? I say no. It’s perfectly legit to protest against any perpetrator. In fact, it’s often a good tactic. It can be easier to get the small actors to change first.