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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, Interesting) by dr_barnowl on Wednesday December 07 2016, @09:27AM
Honestly.... I'd get out of that relationship.
I married someone who was not a vegan, but an incredibly finicky eater. Wouldn't try new things, would refuse to eat a plateful of food if you so much as touched the plate with something she imagined had a trace of some contamination on it. Wouldn't let me do the food shopping, complained about having to do it and pay for it herself. Hated me cooking, for various control-freak reasons.
After our marriage fell apart, I'm with someone who is an ex-vegetarian. A little less widely-eaten than me, some vestigial traces of finicky eating left, but she's a born-again lover of food, and actually seeks to broaden her horizons. She's recently overcome her prejudice against prawns and actually started enjoying them. Cooking is no longer something I'm not allowed to do, it's something we share, and we can share the product of that mutual activity and really enjoy it. We discover new foods we love together. The hard part of picking a restaurant isn't finding somewhere she's prepared to eat, but picking from the enormous choice we have available.
Food is a substantial fraction of the human experience. I firmly believe that we need to be with someone gastro-compatible with ourselves as much as we need to be with someone sexually compatible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:44PM
Is that a fancy way of saying "slimmer"?