The 30-year-old head chef of the Littleover Lodge Hotel in Derby has been fired from his post after he claimed that it was a personal favourite pastime of his to secretly feed meat to vegans on his Instagram account.

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Obviously you can’t be doing that because it sorta violates a person’s human rights, but Alex Lambert insists that it was all a joke that got way out of hand and he’s never even contemplated doing anything like that, saying that he only made the comments to piss off a vegan he was in an online argument with:

It was a stupid comment made to a vegan during an argument online.

It started as a post I had made that essentially said ‘how do you know if someone is a vegan? Don’t worry, they will tell you’.

That was in relation to a customer who had come in and was telling everyone they were vegan, it’s much healthier and better for them and anyone that eats meat is wrong.

A militant vegan saw this post and began commenting, saying I should go get heart disease and I will be responsible for the death of my daughter by feeding her animal products.

I lost my temper, which I think is understandable given her comments, and said something completely stupid with the sole intention of pissing her off. That is basically all it was.

I have been a chef for nine years. I have never in this time done anything like feeding a vegan animal products or slipped in contaminated food.

My job has always been my passion and something I have always taken very seriously. It was a stupid comment said out of anger.

For the record I have no issue with vegans.