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A top Italian chef has brought down the wrath of vegans after he said they were a ‘sect’ and said he would like to ‘kill them all’.

Gianfranco Vissani – a hugely popular TV chef – told the On Air prime time chat show, ‘Vegans are like members of a sect, they’re like Jehovah’s Witnesses.

‘It’s true, and I mean vegans, not vegetarians. What would I do with the vegans? I would kill them all.

Naturally, his comments haven’t gone down too well on social media.


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Many vegans responded angrily to Vissani’s attack on their diet, saying he was ‘living proof that eating meat is bad for you’.