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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: 2) by CoolHand on Wednesday December 07 2016, @04:36PM
You're probably right... I was too lazy to go to your profile and read every comment you made.. I apologize for the sheeple comment. I just get tired of people looking at an ethical fight and just giving up instead of at least attempting it and making progress... What's that old saying? something like, if you strive for perfection and don't attain it, you'll still end up at pretty good? something along those lines.. I see a lot that type of attitude when it comes to animal cruelty, (and saw it elsewhere in this thread). I probably let that cloud my thinking when reading your comment.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday December 07 2016, @05:32PM
"Perfect is the enemy of good" is how I've heard it put, although I think that's meant to be the opposite sentiment -- e.g. in software development, you can work on making it perfect forever, but at a certain point you need to ship something.
I'm hesitant to apply your sentiment to e.g. rewriting the Constitution because of the risk of ending up with something much worse (especially in our current political climate).
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"