Cafe faces vengeful vegan backlash after serving animal products

Some vengeful vegans are on the warpath.

"Words like murderer and rapist and things like that were thrown around about me," said Natalie Yiannakopoulos, who with her mum Fay, runs a cafe at Haberfield in Sydney.

"It really upset me that people could be so cruel," Fay said.

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Their crime?

They changed the menu.

"When mum wanted me to join her in running the cafe, I felt uncomfortable about all the animal products being served," Natalie said.

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"So mum agreed to change to a vegan menu."

Only problem was, there weren't enough vegans around for them to make a profit.

"We lost money for six months and were looking at closing down," Natalie told A Current Affair.

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So they reverted back to a traditional cafe menu, but this time serving animal products that were ethically sourced.

"That's when we copped a backlash on social media," Natalie said.

"Things like 'you're putting profits before animals, I hope you go broke, you should be ashamed of yourselves'."

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Hundreds of social media posts are still being fired at the pair.

"We tried to do something positive, but it didn't work and now we are getting this backlash which is harming our business," Natalie said.

The sorry saga has seen this owner no longer a vegan herself.

"Yeah, I'm not a vegan anymore," Natalie said.