Adam Knauff, a firefighter in Ontario, claims his human rights were violated when his employer failed to provide him with access to vegan food. It amounted to a violation of his right to have access to food unmarked by animal products. In a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, which was announced by Knauff’s counsel on Tuesday, the 40-year-old vegan firefighter claims that his employer failed to pay heed to his dietary restrictions. As of early Wednesday, he had raised only $595 of his $10,000 goal — which he said would help hire expert witnesses to explain ethical veganism to the human rights tribunal. “After working 16-hour days for four days with inadequate nutrition I began to feel physically ill and mentally groggy,” the firefighter wrote of the summer in 2017 in the complaint.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2019 09:41 UTC