Matthew and Terces Englehart, who live on a farm in Vacaville, CA, formed the Cafe Gratitude restaurant chain. The restaurants serve vegan meals. Now vegans have learned that the Engleharts eat meat, including animals raised on their farm, and they are reacting rather badly, including leaving death threats at the couple’s farm.
The Engleharts were vegetarians for nearly 40 years, but they then ate some eggs and cheese and then meat. In 2015 Terces Englehart wrote in a blog post that eating meat was an important part of the sustainability of their farm.
They are being criticized as hypocrites and “flesh eaters” and threatened with boycotts.
All of this brought to mind the organizing convention of the California Green Party, at which I was a delegate. The convention was held in Oakland, about a block from Flint’s Barbecue, which, in my opinion, had the best barbecue in the Bay Area. When we broke for lunch, I walked down to Flint’s and bought a big plate of ribs. I brought it back to one of the benches near the convention site and sat among the other delegates, who were eating their bean sprouts or arugula and endive salads. People came by, looked at me with barbecue sauce running down my chin, and said, sneeringly, “Oh, you eat flesh.”
I looked up and said, “And it is sooooo good.”
The information on the Engleharts came from “California Couple’s Return to Meat Sparks Vegan Uproar,” Lancaster Farming, (June 4, 2016), p. A-17.
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