Mario Batali spoke out against sexual harassment just last month: “The dinosaurs are going to slowly die off, and the quicker it happens the better it is”

Variety

“You’d be surprised at how few people recognize the tell-tale signs” of harassment, the accused sexual harasser said at an event in November, adding that “you can’t have people be deterred from a workplace, like in hospitality, because they were frightened, or intimidated, or disgusted by something that was in the kitchen.” Batali added that “the best way is to just make sure there is no tolerance for any bulls–t in any workplace that you’re associated with. Zero.”

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