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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:51AM (#438221)

    I wonder if they would feel the same way if the new fivers were greased with tallow made from the fat of human corpses, people who died of heart attacks or were killed in accidents?

    Is this a real question, or do you already have an answer in mind? I think many more people than just vegans would have an issue with this.

    Not all vegans hate humans, and not all people who come to like certain animals more than other humans are vegans. It's easy for some people to dislike humans because humans are intelligent and yet they often squander this intelligence.

    Personally, I think these people are hypocrites.

    I'm sure you'd also accuse them of being hypocrites if they didn't do this. In fact, if your standard is that someone is a hypocrite because they're not perfect and are merely doing the best they can to follow their principles, then there are very likely countless things that you're a hypocrite about as well.

    A lot of people complain about rabid vegans, but rabid anti-vegans are just as annoying.