Celebrity chef John Mountain claims vegan activist Tash Peterson is "obsessed" with him after she was hit with a number of charges for storming his Perth restaurant twice.
Police charged Peterson with trespassing, remaining in the vicinity of a licenced premises, and disorderly behaviour in a public place after clashing with the chef for the second time outside his Fyre Restaurant last weekend.
Peterson has been barred from all licenced venues in Western Australia for the next year following her behaviour, but Mountain doesn't think the ban is "harsh" enough.
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"Twelve months is not enough. We were actually going for a lifetime ban of all licenced premises throughout WA – so no restaurants, no bars, no nothing," Mountain told A Current Affair host Leila McKinnon.
"If she's going to cause this much disruption, it's not fair. It's not fair on small operators, it's not fair on licensed premises at all. We shouldn't allow this to carry on."
The chef said he believes Peterson has made herself "out to be a martyr" following their confrontation, while referring to a video she posted to her social media.
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In the video, she said: "No one can stop me from bringing light to the largest holocaust in history".
Since the video was posted, Mountain said he has obtained two restraining orders from a magistrate where it was granted that Peterson can no longer mention the chef's name, his company or anybody associated with him online.
The chef plans to have her removed from social media next.
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"You will see a clean-up of her Instagram because it's all about me," Mountain said.
"She's got some weird obsession"
But despite his run-in with Peterson, the chef said he is ready to have a debate with "a vegan that is intellectual enough to hold court" but he would prefer not to hear the "screeching" he previously encountered in his restaurant.
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Mountain said he's received messages from vegans across the world who have apologised for Peterson's behaviour.
"She's not promoting veganism," he said.
While Mountain has received supportive calls from vegans, he said he will be following through on his promise to ban all of them from his restaurant.
"I'm not going to back down. It is a lifetime ban forever within my life and my businesses and that's it," the chef said.
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Mountain said his battle against Peterson isn't over yet because he can't move on before finishing what was started.
"Once we get over the legal action so far as the police are concerned, I'm going to start going for civil action as well," he said.
"She tried to damage my business so much and it really hurt, Leila, it genuinely really hurt," he said.
But despite how upsetting the ordeal was for the chef, he says he "can now see the light at the end of the tunnel".
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