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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: 3, Insightful) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:23PM
Heh, well I agreed with your original post to a point, but this one is going off the rails. Sure a minority of liberals have a rabid loathing of white males and conservatives, but I write them off the same as I write off the rabid creationists etc. protesting outside abortion clinics. The wild fringes will always be there on both sides.
My gripe is the hypocrisy and in-your-face attitude of some people that make a huge deal out of something incredibly minor (such as this story). I think you're projecting your biased viewpoint of vegans / progressives way too much, the vast majority are not self loathing they just see actual problems in society. Its also not a holier than thou, its a brain aneurysm forming when conservative types refuse to acknowledge the very real issues we have in our society. Racism sure as hell is still real, but its getting better. Animal cruelty is totally real and hasn't changed much. Income inequality has been getting worse for a very long time and its causing a huge amount of societal problems that are going to really kick in during the next decade or two if we don't do something about it. Climate change is real and the world needs to take steps to mitigate the long term damage.
All these points are supported by progressives / liberals and they are all very real problems. We can argue about solutions, but when you refuse to accept the hard evidence that these problems exist then you will run into the "holier than thou" attitude. This goes both ways, I see the same attitude in the conservative base on this site all the time except it comes off more as angry insults.
The US has a ton of problems, but they are swept under the rug with a lot of bureaucracy, media disinterest, and blame shifting. Stop the mindset of us vs. them, whenever you point the finger at "them" realize that they can be equally pointing the finger right back. The struggle is we the people vs. the oppressors. Always has been, always will be. Any success can be rolled back, constant vigilance etc. etc. Right now we've been successfully divided by race and class issues.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:13PM
Well said!
Washington DC delenda est.