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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, @06:39PM
What do you have against red? lol
IMHO there are two major factors that drive the hatred. First, the rather basic fact that anyone doing anything that's not in the established norm of society is to be ridiculed, mocked, and made fun of until the individuals doing it come around to a more sensible way of acting and thinking as society (rightfully) dictates. I guess we can say that some progress has been made, since we're not lynching or stoning these people anymore.
Second, since many of our plains states entire livelihood stems from the factory farming cattle industry, it only seems natural that they'd attack a lifestyle that doesn't require you purchasing their products.
Again IMHO, it's not the animal products in and of themselves that are wrong, but merely the way we currently go about producing the raw materials, and maybe who is producing it.