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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: 2) by Kromagv0 on Tuesday December 06 2016, @04:46PM
I've seen the farm where my beef is raised and the butcher at least had the decency to kill the thing before chopping it up.
This probably means you are getting better meat than you otherwise would as well, unless you live next to a giant feedlot with cattle knee deep in their own filth.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @04:59PM
No the McDonald's is down the road, but I don't call them cattle, sheeple suffices.