Results: Vegan Sues Neighbors for their Backyard Barbeque

A Perth, Australia woman who practices a vegan lifestyle, or abstaining from any use of animal products, particularly in diet, has sued her neighbors over their regular practice of barbequing because she claims the odor of cooking meat is offensive to her. Have you heard this story before this survey?

Cilla Carden took her case to the Supreme Court of Western Australia, citing her neighbors' barbecuing, smoking and children playing basketball, among other complaints. She accused her neighbors of intentionally setting up these nuisances. "It's deliberate," she told reporters. "All I can smell is fish. I can't enjoy my backyard." Do you know anyone who practices a vegan lifestyle?

A lower court threw out the case in February. "What they are doing is living in their backyard and their home as a family," said the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia, according to the Evening Standard in the United Kingdom. The supreme court also rejected her claims in July, dismissing the case. Do you think it is ridiculous that a vegan would sue her neighbors for barbequing in their backyard?

Though her cases were quickly thrown out in court, on Facebook, a page titled 'Community BBQ for Cilla Carden' has been created, urging people to come and have a cookout right on her doorstep to keep the "good old Aussie tradition" of barbecuing alive. Do you think it makes sense for people from the community to retaliate by having a mass barbeque right outside Carden's property?

Already, 3,500 people have said they will be attending the event, while almost 9,000 others have declared an interest in going. The mass barbecue is scheduled for Saturday, October 19, and allegedly, Carden has been in touch with her lawyers regarding the event. Would you be interested in going to this retaliatory barbeque?