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The Rainbow Vegetarian Café in Cambridge, England, has announced that it will not accept the new £5 polymer notes, introduced by the Bank of England in September. Last week the British vegan community discovered that the notes contain trace amounts of beef tallow, which is animal fat, and are therefore unacceptable by their cruelty-free standards. A heated online controversy has resulted, including a petition asking the Bank to remove tallow from the polymer.
The Rainbow Café's owner, Sharon Meijland, told The Telegraph that her stance was announced last Wednesday, at the end of a BBC radio interview on the unrelated topic of Christmas food.
"We sponsor the Vegan Fair and announced on Wednesday we would not be accepting the £5 notes because they are dubious ethically. We have been providing food for vegans for 30 years and have tried to be as ethical as we possibly can...This is not just a restaurant, it's a restaurant where tiny details like this are really important."
Is any of our money cruelty-free?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:08PM
It's like when people want to complain about Christians. They want to impose their morality on everyone else.
(Score: 2, Informative) by zugedneb on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:19PM
ah, yes... idiot warning...
the vegan violence is unbearable...
no bear could take it...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:25PM
Well, it's also because you know that 95% of them are just self-absorbed egotists who need to feel like they are one rung up on the morality ladder than everyone else. Check back on them in 5 years and they'll not be vegan anymore (though they'll try to admit they "sometimes" still eat vegan to try to save face, or insist that they still are, its just that they are not actively practicing because of such-and-such) and they will have moved onto the next moral fad. One could be active in a religion to get that feeling of self-satisfaction, but that actually takes a lot of work to maintain it (which is why everyone looks down on the loudmouthed Sunday-only moralists for being the hypocrites they are). It is a lot easier to jump from fad to fad when you get bored of the current one.
Remember how it was a thing, about 10 or so years ago, for young women to be lesbian or bi-sexual? Same thing. There are endless fads like this one could roll out.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Wednesday December 07 2016, @12:56AM
u confuse general insight with the emperors new cloths...
i am a vegan, and it is based on the insight that there is a mind in an animal, and if can be avoided, then there is no need to end its existence.
other than that, i am a sane but not particuarly "nice" person...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax