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But when he was on deployment in B.C., Knauff said, he was “not provided with any food that was vegan or not otherwise contaminated with animal products”; he was “therefore forced to go hungry.”

Which is not to say that Knauff didn’t eat. His application is a veritable food diary of his time in William’s Lake, beginning with a day of salads and side dishes, continuing through a day of plain bagels and coffee from Tim’s, followed by a day of “beans, oatmeal and fruit.”

I’m not sure what Knauff said to the chef, but it involved curse words. As did the chef’s reply

And then there was the much-anticipated big barbecue featuring vegan burgers, an event which, Knauff wrote, turned out to be a giant letdown when he saw the chef touch the pseudo-beef burgers with the same gloves that he’d used to touch the actual-beef burgers.

I’m not sure what Knauff said to the chef, but it involved curse words. As did the chef’s reply.

There is the feeling that Knauff was not the most pleasant to be around. Knauff reports complaining to a supervisor about not having enough protein on his plate. When the supervisor offered him protein bars in response, Knauff says, Knauff declined the bars but took the opportunity to curse out the supervisor. The Canadian Press reports that when Knauff was given another meal — a stirfry — that he deemed insufficient, he dumped it “in front of food staff and said, repeatedly, ‘this isn’t vegan.’ ”

In the end, Knauff was sent home and suspended (the repetition of the “this isn’t vegan” mantra in the face of the hapless food workers appears to have been the last straw, though whether Knauff threw non-vegan food at staff is contested).