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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679

A heated row has broken out over a move by Britain's largest bakery chain to launch a vegan sausage roll.

The pastry, which is filled with a meat substitute and encased in 96 pastry layers, is available in 950 Greggs stores across the country.

It was promised after 20,000 people signed a petition calling for the snack to be launched to accommodate plant-based diet eaters.


But the vegan sausage roll's launch has been greeted by a mixed reaction: Some consumers welcomed it, while others voiced their objections.

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Cook and food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe declared she was "frantically googling to see what time my nearest opens tomorrow morning because I will be outside".

While TV writer Brydie Lee-Kennedy called herself "very pro the Greggs vegan sausage roll because anything that wrenches veganism back from the 'clean eating' wellness folk is a good thing".

One Twitter user wrote that finding vegan sausage rolls missing from a store in Corby had "ruined my morning".

Another said: "My son is allergic to dairy products which means I can't really go to Greggs when he's with me. Now I can. Thank you vegans."

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TV presenter Piers Morgan led the charge of those outraged by the new roll.

"Nobody was waiting for a vegan bloody sausage, you PC-ravaged clowns," he wrote on Twitter.

Mr Morgan later complained at receiving "howling abuse from vegans", adding: "I get it, you're all hangry. I would be too if I only ate plants and gruel."

Another Twitter user said: "I really struggle to believe that 20,000 vegans are that desperate to eat in a Greggs."

"You don't paint a mustach (sic) on the Mona Lisa and you don't mess with the perfect sausage roll," one quipped.

Journalist Nooruddean Choudry suggested Greggs introduce a halal steak bake to "crank the fume levels right up to 11".

The bakery chain told concerned customers that "change is good" and that there would "always be a classic sausage roll".

It comes on the same day McDonald's launched its first vegetarian "Happy Meal", designed for children.

The new dish comes with a "veggie wrap", instead of the usual chicken or beef option.
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It should be noted that Piers Morgan and Greggs share the same PR firm, so I'm thinking this is some serious faux outrage and South Park KKK gambiting here.
 
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Traincake said:
Well, you know what Churchill said about the Royal Navy's traditions: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.
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True, but they got rid of the lash in the late 19th century and they haven't spliced the mainbrace since the 80s, iirc. So that only leaves the quest for the golden rivet.
 
‘Skinny, bendy and blonde’: women of colour challenge racism in UK yoga / https://archive.ph/rOLS6

Despite its roots in India, the sector is not diverse, and women report ‘wall of silence’ about studios’ lack of inclusiveness

When Sue Forde returned to practising yoga in a studio earlier this year, for the first time since the pandemic, it was with a sense of trepidation. Because it meant she was, once again, usually the only black woman in the room.

“I’ve had my body pointed to as ‘an African body’,” said Forde, from Hackney, east London. “Recently, in a class, this discussion sprang up about whether black women have a bigger tendency to a pelvic tilt. You think: ‘Oh, please don’t bring this into the yoga room.’”


Forde is one of a growing number of black and minority ethnic yoga teachers and practitioners who are challenging racism in British yoga organisations. Many said they have experienced inappropriate touching of, and comments about, their bodies and hair in classes, as well as crass racial stereotypes, such as Indians being ‘naturally bendy’, and ignorance of yoga’s sacred texts, including the Bhagavad Gita.

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Last autumn, Forde was among several members of the renowned Iyengar Yoga London in Maida Vale who raised concerns about racism at the centre. A meeting in September to discuss equality and diversity at the institute heard about “women of colour who had visited IYMV once or twice and not returned as they felt unwelcome and uncomfortable”. Forde, who has not since returned to the studio, also told the group that it was “not reflecting the diversity that is on the streets around it”.

Despite its roots in India, the sector, which, along with pilates, is worth more than £900m, is not diverse. A report by the British Medical Journal in 2020 found that 87% of UK practitioners were women and 91% were white.

In a book published this week, yoga teacher trainer Stacie Graham argues that in Europe and North America, yoga’s traditions have been misappropriated and commodified as fitness.

In Yoga As Resistance, which Graham wrote as a guide to making yoga more inclusive, she noted that social media representations of the practice are dominated by images of white women who are “very skinny, bendy and blonde”.

Graham, who has led anti-racism workshops for yoga studios including Triyoga, said whenever she asked studio managers why their membership did not reflect the ethnic diversity of the local area, their answers were often based on inaccurate racial stereotypes “about what ‘those people’ do”.

Together with three other yoga teachers of colour, Graham has set up Radical Darshan, an anti-racist teacher training course in London. It covers the harmful impact of British colonialism on India and how that led to modern western-style yoga, focused on exercise rather than spirituality.

One of the other course leaders, Kallie Schut, who also runs decolonised yoga group Rebel Yoga Tribe, said many UK yoga organisations were exploiting India’s cultural heritage while failing to appoint south Asian teachers.

She recalled a class where a white teacher “who’d just come back from an ashram in India was wearing Indian clothes, and all the accoutrements, in a class full of white people”.

“It felt like it was almost a parody of being south Asian,” said Schut, from south-east London. She added that such experiences in white-led yoga spaces were traumatising for people of colour, and she was no longer willing to practise in them.

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Amanda Evans from Brighton said she had quit teaching yoga in commercial studios because some white students had walked out of classes when they saw a black or brown teacher. “It happened to me a couple of times and with south Asian teachers I know as well,” she said.
Other yoga teachers of colour said they had stopped providing anti-racism work for white-led yoga organisations in recent years because they had not carried out meaningful reform.
Sophia Ansari, a Cardiff-based yoga teacher and therapist, who has run workshops on decolonising the yoga curriculum for trustees of the British Wheel of Yoga, said she had distanced herself from the industry because “they’re doing a disservice to yoga”.
“I felt like I was getting nowhere with studio owners after challenging them for the last two years,” said Ansari. “There is a wall of silence, always. I had to withdraw from it because it’s exhausting.”
Dorothy Hosein, chief executive of British Wheel of Yoga, said the training body had recently set up an equality, diversity and inclusion working group to discuss how to change the culture of the organisation.
Hosein, who is white, said the organisation’s new board, which is elected annually, was all white. She added: “We haven’t got diversity in our demographics, and there’s a lot of work to do.”

Alan Reynolds, manager of Iyengar Yoga London, said he accepted that people of colour were underrepresented in classes. He added that the institute had several teachers of colour and had recently formed a diversity advisory group to address how it could become more inclusive.

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Great so fat fucking pervert jerkoffs have found another thing to ruin. Next they'll be demanding a yoga course that involves shitting yourself while tweeting.
 
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Eh, they were shit stirring so nothing of value was lost.
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They probably shared the images on social media before the University could actually do a disciplinary hearing on the matter with tutors and pastoral staff. If it was an actual crime the police would of took over long ago. Just writing nigger doesnt mean you should have your life ruined by darkie harpies.
 
indigoisviolet said:
I appreciate it's endlessly frustrating, yet we have to do these things 100% legally or we fuck ourselves.
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Already did.

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Since 2010 we have jailed 1 in 3 male first generation muslim immigrants, for example.
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That´s a great start, now how is the investigations regarding childrape in various English towns with a certain demographic, for 20+ years going, Gov´nor.
indigoisviolet said:
If their individual convictions aren't entirely above board, that can quite correctly be labelled an Official Policy of Internment, and we'd be fucked internationally on things like trade.
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Brexit, remember. Which nation in the world would refuse to trade with anyone opposed to Pedophilia, unless in the EU and USA?
indigoisviolet said:
It's even more legally important where removal of people from the country is concerned. As much as we'd like to boat them over to a rock in the Channel close to France and dump them there, this is entirely illegal. It prevents countries from emptying their prisons and lunatic asylums, force marching them to the border, and dumping them on a neighbour. Recent history is full of rogue nations doing exactly this, and it's caused utter chaos.
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#Illegal. Says who. It worked fine in Liberia, by nigger standards. It will work again. #TrustMeBro.
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We want these people out, that much we can all agree on.
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You don´t, or they would be long gone.
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Now we just have to wait for the law to facilitate this, which it will, at its own pace. Which is usually the speed at which a sailboat can glide to India and back twice over, hardly a surprise given The Law Society today has roots in 1700s trade. It's also why the Left have dedicated all of their efforts to remove the legal term "illegal alien" from common usage: an illegal alien cannot own property or money, all of their earnings are forfeit to the State, and the salt in their bloodstream legally belongs to the country they currently reside in and can be collected upon without notice. It's the very worst legal designation as can be.
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"I don´t give a shit about your faggot laws" etc.
 
Diet Purple Pepsi said:
Christ, Manchester's rail station was a fucking ghost town. Is the RMT union serious about taking this strike all the way to Christmas or are they just bluffing?
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I doubt they'll survive that long. Piccadilly was such a ghost town because everyone said 'fuck this, I'mma work at home'.

Schapps wasn't bullshitting when he said taking the train isn't a neccessity anymore.
 
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As if there weren't enough cherries on our shit sundae, we might be looking at another resurgence of Polio

Poliovirus detected in London sewage, UK officials warn​

By Nicoletta Lanese published about 4 hours ago
The detected strain can sometimes cause severe disease.

A strain of poliovirus that can sometimes cause paralysis has cropped up in the sewers of London and may be spreading among closely-linked individuals in the north and east regions of the city, the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warned Wednesday (June 22).

The UKHSA and Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency regularly monitor for poliovirus in sewage samples collected from the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. In a typical year, the agencies detect one to three unrelated polioviruses lurking in the sewage system, but these tend to be isolated events linked to individuals vaccinated with the live oral polio vaccine, according to the UKHSA.

The oral polio vaccine contains live, but weakened, polioviruses that can be shed in the stool of vaccinated people and thus end up in the sewers, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative(opens in new tab) (GPEI). If they remain weak, these poop-bound polioviruses can actually boost the level of immunity in communities with poor sanitation, by spreading to unvaccinated people. However, in some instances, the viruses have evolved to behave more like wild, naturally-occuring polioviruses that can cause illness in people who aren't fully vaccinated.

Due to this risk, many countries, including the U.S.(opens in new tab), only use "inactivated" polio vaccines, rather than oral vaccines, and for polio to be fully eradicated, all countries will eventually need to halt their use of the oral vaccines, the GPEI states.

In London, health officials detected several closely-related polioviruses in sewage samples collected between February and May. Among these they found vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2), the most common type of vaccine-derived poliovirus, per the GPEI. VDPV2 can rarely cause severe illness and paralysis in those who are not fully vaccinated, according to the UKHSA.

The presence of VDPV2 hints that the poliovirus may be spreading among "closely-linked individuals in North and East London," who are now shedding virus in their stool, the statement reads. So far, the virus has only been detected in sewage and no cases of paralysis have been reported.

"The majority of Londoners are fully protected against Polio and won’t need to take any further action, but the NHS will begin reaching out to parents of children aged under 5 in London who are not up to date with their Polio vaccinations to invite them to get protected," Jane Clegg, chief nurse for the NHS in London, said in the statement.
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On the upside, it's a pretty good excuse to wall off London.
 
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Gary Lineker has claimed he suffered “racist abuse” from fellow footballers due to his “darkish skin”.

The former England and Tottenham striker, now presenter of Match of the Day presenter, first heard the insults when he was a “tiny, geeky kid”.


But the 61-year-old maintains it continued well into his professional career, from known figures in the sport, who he refused to name.
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Not gonna lie makes sense, after all the first thing I think when I look at this picture of young Gary is "what an absolute nigger"
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The Conservative Party have been decimated in the by-elections at Wakefield, and Tiverton and Honiton.

Wakefield turned blue (Conservative) in the last general election, having been a Labour bastion for many years. The by-election was triggered when the Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan was jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting a fifteen-year old boy. His 3000+ majority has now been overturned by Labour who retook the seat by 4925 votes.

Far more worrying for the Conservative party is the result at Tiverton and Honiton, which has been Tory-held since its foundation in 1997. Neil Parish, who held the seat by over 24,000 votes in the previous election, stepped down as an MP after it was revealed that he had twice viewed pornography on his phone while in the parliament chamber. The seat was taken by the Lib Dems with a 6144 vote majority.

The Conservative Party co-chairman, Oliver Dowden has stepped down from his role following these results, which are the harbinger of either a Labour or Labour-Lib Dem controlled government, come the next general election.
 
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It should be noted that the next election is a couple of years away at this point and Labour and the Lib Dems are liable to fuck themselves over somehow.

Although mass voter apathy could work in their favour as they seem to attract those with no personalities of their own.
 
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