So the fine dining restaurant 11 Madison Park, which is in New York City, has just recently announced that they are going to be reintroducing meat back onto their menu.

This follows in the footsteps of other previously plant-based restaurants and eateries which have made the same decision.

But is there a message in all of this? Is there a warning that we as a community should be concerned about?

What exactly do these recent examples of restaurants telling their back on plant-based eating tell us about the state of veganism?

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So 11 Madison Park went plant-based back in 2021 following the first year or so of the COVID-19 pandemic. And just before we dive into some of the statements they've made just in the past week or so,

I want to highlight a statement they made back then,

which alludes to why they made the decision to go plant-based in the first place. So this is from the owner of 11 Madison Park.

I started to realize the impact that animal farming has all over the world. I started to realize what was going on in the fish industry and how broken it is.

I started to feel guilty because I felt that for fish industry and how broken it is. I started to feel

guilty because I felt that for a long time, I didn't question enough exactly where our food was

coming from. When you have that knowledge, you have the responsibility to speak about it. What's

changed? What's different now? Why is this statement no longer relevant four years later? I mean,

has there been some huge shift in terms of how we farm animals? Has the world completely altered? Has the

planet been rescued from climate disaster? Is it now this sweepingly ethical system that we don't

have to be worried about.

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