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Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash'

posted by on Tuesday December 06 2016, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:50PM

    by Francis (5544) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:50PM (#438062)

    You can buy anything from a store for cash and if you really need something online and don't have a credit card, you can buy a gift card or prepay a credit card. Not good options, but they are possible.

    Credit cards require credit checks as well as having a bank and these are also decisions being made by the customer rather than the business. Businesses taking cards, but not cash are pretty much restricted to companies that are either online or dealing with such large amounts of money that it would be unwieldy to accept cash. For example, people buying and selling houses generally won't take cash.

    It's also notable in that I've never heard of a business refusing small bills. Refusing 50s and 100s is fairly common as those are bills that are potentially large enough to counterfeit, but refusing a smaller bill is just weird. If they're going to be doing business with the public, then they need to provide a sane method of payment.