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Have you seen this Pub in Lewes, Vegans and Sabs

55 replies

Xascha · 27/12/2018 14:19

Pub puts up a sign saying

Due to the hunt today, we regret to inform you that we will not be welcoming
Saboteurs or Vegans
into the premises

Kind Regards,
The Management

The brewery have distanced themselves (Harveys Sussex)
Hi everyone, as a company we do not endorse, whatsoever, the actions taken by management of The Dorset yesterday, regarding the sign placed on the door.
We are fully committed to inclusivity and their actions should not reflect any part of us as a company.
I hope you can appreciate we have just come back from our own Christmas holidays to news of this event, and will look to put an official statement out later on today.
We do not run the pub directly as it is a tenanted house. Needless to say we are in touch with the licensees and disciplinary action is being taken against those involved. With kind regards, Harvey's Brewery.

and:
lewes.co.uk/forum/post/The_Dorset_Pub_Lewes/258842?fbclid=IwAR3_jbIc7yeh9Ilqa0xxUklODZFTdul4c2TWLRKPireT1SMue0ZRvLt1CeU

Have you seen  this Pub in Lewes, Vegans and Sabs
OP posts:
brizzledrizzle · 27/12/2018 15:28

He's clearly a cunt- supporter of the hunt.

MadameButterface · 27/12/2018 15:31

Lol yes those vegan hooligans throwing molotov falafels everywhere, they’re well known for it

If he knew the specifics of the would be trouble causers he should have put a sign up that made that clear or simply refused them service as is his right. Generalising is a bit silly and unfortunately worded. As are people acting as if going ‘what a badly worded sign how silly’ is literally the same thing as sending someone to a gulag. But hey ho.

Buster72 · 27/12/2018 15:39

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-vegan-protester-who-led-storming-of-brighton-steakhouse-on-how-he-plans-to-eradicate-meat-a4004381.html
this happened recently in Brighton ....perhaps this is the crowd he hopes to dissuade.

Augusta2012 · 27/12/2018 15:46

As are people acting as if going ‘what a badly worded sign how silly’ is literally the same thing as sending someone to a gulag. But hey ho.

They’re not just doing that though are they? They’re widely sharing it on social media, are contacting his employer to get him sacked and making threats. One of the posters on facebook was actively calling for people to ruin his life.

It’s a constant feature of our society that we constantly have to walk on eggshells if we don’t want a mob of strangers online trying to ruin our lives and livelihoods because they don’t like our our opinions. Societies where your safety, job or home depends on not offending some shadow minority

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 27/12/2018 15:48

As has been said already, his sign was badly written

Any random vegan popping in for a drink would be WTF???

And potential vegan trouble makers wont give a shiny shit what the sign says...they'll go in anyway

Augusta2012 · 27/12/2018 15:48

Sorry, Living in fear of offending some shadow minority who will publicly denounce you if they think you have the wrong opinions is a repressive

MaMaMaMySharona · 27/12/2018 15:57

brizzledrizzle agreed. He sounds like a tosser.

rabbitfoodadvocate · 27/12/2018 16:00

How about no fucking hunting? It's illegal, immoral and archaic.

No hunting = no problem.

2napSchedules · 27/12/2018 16:04

Why shouldn't he reserve the right to not serve certain people?

Augusta2012 · 27/12/2018 16:12

Fucking hell, shouldn’t type posts and hold a toddler at the same time.

Any society where people live in fear of public denouncement that can ruin their lives with no trial and no crime being committed but just by having an opinion someone doesn’t like is an oppressive one. We are a modern society and really should be above this sort of extra judicial mob justice.

It’s very, very like the Salem Witch Trials where people who were seen as not quite fitting into societies norms were found guilty just on the basis of denouncement.

I know a lot of MNrs are fine about this, because they agree with the people doing this and think they are right and good. But Nazis, Stalin’s Communists, the Spanish Inquisition: all of these people will have believed that they were right and that people who thought differently from them should be persecuted too.

You carry on pretending it’s fine just as long as you’re not the one being denounced, but I can guarantee you eventually you will hold a view which could get you denounced.

I don’t think many of the people on here on the feminist boards didn’t think they could possibly end up on the wrong side and being denounced. They’re mainly card carrying lefties who buy into PC culture. Then the TRAs turned up and suddenly they were evil, bigoted TERF scum who are denounced on line, harassed and doxxed.

I think some people like to laugh it off because it’s online, but being online doesn’t make it any less of a denouncement.

ExFury · 27/12/2018 16:14

We don’t actually know what the landlord thinks of hunting. He has a pub in an area with and active hunt group and it would be business suicide to have done it the other way round.

Thesearmsofmine · 27/12/2018 16:16

I don’t agree with fox hunting and his sign was badly done but I can understand him not wanting to have troublemakers in his pub upsetting his regular customers on and there potentially being damage. It’s his livelihood.

The protest group going into steak r restaurants and surrounding meat in supermarkets and being covered in the national press are just looking for trouble.

rabbitfoodadvocate · 27/12/2018 16:21

I agree. Doesn't deserve trouble in his pub at all and this will have been directed at a specific group of people that make all vegans look like a bunch of knobs.

Hunting IS illegal though, so actually following the law would help in this situation! And no, try don't just scent or trail hunt.

Travisandthemonkey · 27/12/2018 16:32

A hunt meet isn’t illegal. I mean really. Get your facts right
Hunting foxes is illegal.

CoughLaughFart · 27/12/2018 16:33

Maybe bar the murderers who hunt for ‘sport’ instead? Scum.

keenkaren · 27/12/2018 16:36

To be honest I would be very happy if my local banned leave voters..

rabbitfoodadvocate · 27/12/2018 17:15

Travis
Get yours right. Look into where this hunt meet is and who hey are. It's a fox hunt and very well known to be.

Haphazardhacker · 27/12/2018 20:59

I’ve hunted with a traditional pack (fox hounds) and a scent trail was followed. People really need to not be drawn into sab propaganda. This pub knows their audience and doesn’t want any trouble just like football matches and opposing teams. Many of my encounters with hunt saboteur has led me to believe that many are thugs who like to have a fight. I have known them come to blood hound and drag hunt meets to try cause trouble 😆.

everythingisginandroses · 27/12/2018 21:09

How can you run a business in Lewes this way? Xmas Confused Xmas Grin

Shitlandpony · 27/12/2018 21:13

It’s very, very like the Salem Witch Trials where people who were seen as not quite fitting into societies norms were found guilty just on the basis of denouncement

Absolutely- for the vegans that is.

ihatetosay · 27/12/2018 21:18

doesnt everyone have a 'problem' with hunting

Shitlandpony · 27/12/2018 21:21

Haphazardhacker likewise with pro hunt propaganda. Coakham bloodhounds etc- fine in my book, but you are seriously not being honest if you are claiming the hunts aren’t regularly catching foxes.
The terrier men are absolute thugs and I attended a hunt in that area where they were digging out a vixen.

Sorry but I can’t take anyone seriously who claims that it doesn’t happen.
I would like to ride through the countryside but there are very few hunts in that area (where I live) who don’t flout the ban.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-probe-footage-heartbreaking-footage-9395384

My local hunt is ^^, so I refuse to go out with them.

Shitlandpony · 27/12/2018 21:24

Anyway, it’s just the landlord being a massive pro hunting twat, nothing to do with avoiding trouble as I saw the screenshot taken from his FB last year which showed his homophobia and anti vegan rants.

Shelby2010 · 27/12/2018 21:28

Unless I’ve missed something, then hunting wild animals with hounds is illegal? Vegans don’t care about drag hunting. So this implies that the local hunt is likely to ‘accidentally ‘ flush out a Fox & the hounds will uncontrollably chase that instead? Presumably the landlord is going to test anyone coming into the pub with porkscratchings?

It’s nothing like the football pub situation because fox hunting is illegal and neither being vegan or supporting Celtic is. Maybe the police should be questioning the landlord about his knowledge of illegal activities.

CoughLaughFart · 28/12/2018 00:04

I’ve hunted with a traditional pack (fox hounds) and a scent trail was followed. People really need to not be drawn into sab propaganda.

Trash.

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