If you’re not a carnivore, there’s a good chance the smell of sizzling meat won’t be to your liking. But would you cancel barbecues because of it like this Perth vegan?
Cilla Carden made headlines this week after she demanded her neighbours stop smoking, bouncing balls and cooking barbecues in their backyard because she’s fed up with the smell of meat.
According to 9News, she’s so sick of the stink, she’s taking her neighbours all the way to the State Administrative Tribunal and Supreme Court.
“They’ve put it there so I smell fish, all I can smell is fish. I can’t enjoy my backyard, I can’t go out there,” the Perth vegan said. “It’s been devastating, it’s been turmoil, it’s been unrest, I haven’t been able to sleep.”
When 9News visited the neighbour, they’d removed the barbecue and even told their kids to stop playing basketball. “It’s deliberate, that’s what I told the courts, it’s deliberate,” the neighbour said.
Turns out the Supreme Court wasn’t having any of Carden’s claims, and dismissed her case.
Social media users have weighed in on the issue, with some siding with Carden’s complaints and others calling it “a neighbour nightmare.”
“This is the only time I’d call for compulsory national service,” one Facebook user commented. “It’s called communal living. Respecting your neighbours. It requires you to give up certain expectations. If you want that much freedom move to where there are no other people.”
It’s not the first time a vegan vs. meat eater beef has made headlines. In 2016, singer-songwriter and staunch vegan Morrissey forced food vendors at Chicago’s Riot Festival to stop cooking and selling meat during his set.
The request didn’t go down well, and food vendor Puffs of Doom responded by selling a sandwich named the ‘Pork Morrissey Grilled Cheese,’ which was filled with four kinds of cheese, barbecue pulled pork, and bacon ranch mac and cheese. AKA a vegan’s worst nightmare.
Morrissey released an album in 1985 called Meat Is Murder, so his hatred towards those who eat meat isn’t totally surprising.
Are these demands to cancel all meat-related activities fair enough? Or insanely unreasonable? Either way, it sounds like way too much effort being put into complaining about day-to-day activities that were never intended to offend.