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Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash'

posted by on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:27PM   
from the money-is-murder dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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• Re:late to the party... Re:late to the party... (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:36PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:36PM (#438013)

  First, vegans have a particularly extremist and "unrealistic" perspective on the world. There are a LOT of animal products in the world, as evidenced by this article. To forsake them all is to literally undermine all of modern society. This would be fine, except that...

  Second, vegans have a reputation for being very preachy. This may or may not be a fair reputation, but it is their reputation. They aren't only living by their code, they are very vocal about it to others and why they should convert. This is annoying, and hence people get aggressive against it.

  It's somewhat like the backlash against hipsters, if you know about that. It isn't enough that you don't like "sportsball," you need to make sure everybody else know you don't like it and how they are inferior for buying into the mass-brainwashing.

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• Re:late to the party... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:54PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:54PM (#438105)

  Oh man, who doesn't like sportsball? Its the best one!!

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