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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary


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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.

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.

 

[Monopolywheel]

Is it? How can a party be full of Muslims yet it's one of the "wokest" parties out there, especially in terms of LGBT rights? Not trying to be a retard, just find it confusing to understand for my tiny fag brain.

Because the muslims are very new to the Green party and only joined because Labour isn't Pro-Palestine
So they vote Green as a protest vote
Muslims don't really seem to care about how woke the party is. All they care about is Palestine

 

[Crispy Jakes]

Considering the UK has no formal constitution, wouldn't it be theoretically possible for the country to legislate itself into a dictatorship?

Constitutions are as make-believe as "international law".
They allow useful idiots to larp and are ignored or acknowledged by the governments of the day at their convenience.

 

[Otterly]

It is behind the Daily Telegraph paywall

I’m amazed she’s allowed to even mention the concept of white women and girls being hated by Muslims and foreigners. That’s quite a turnaround for the press.
As for constitutions, it would be good to have one, but until we can defend our rights, with free speech and quite frankly, the ability to make the despotic afraid then it’s worth nothing,
Tree of liberty, parched, etc

 

[EddyRooney]

As with all the comments on the YT page, I'd really like to know the names of the three lady MPs sitting in front of Rupert Lowe.
Politicians really don't get it, do they ? This is bigger than what colour tie you wear. It's about whether you're a human with a soul and if you give a damn about the country you live in. The three witches clearly don't. Mr Lowe has asked a lot of questions there that I think many of us want answers to and if they aren't given to us then all I can conclude is that the House of Commons and by extension the country is truly lost.

 

[Hazel Motes]

As with all the comments on the YT page, I'd really like to know the names of the three lady MPs sitting in front of Rupert Lowe.
Politicians really don't get it, do they ? This is bigger than what colour tie you wear. It's about whether you're a human with a soul and if you give a damn about the country you live in. The three witches clearly don't. Mr Lowe has asked a lot of questions there that I think many of us want answers to and if they aren't given to us then all I can conclude is that the House of Commons and by extension the country is truly lost.

As far as I can remember, the HOC has always been full of childish jeering and posturing. They even gave Blair a standing ovation, an unprecedent event that never would have happened prior. The dumbing down of the civil service is a sad, but perhaps inevitable conclusion of our culture of excess and superficiality.

 

[isalaide]

The fact the sentence for sexual offences against children is anything other than life with a good 40 years punishment part is genuinely part of the reason children in the UK are constantly preyed upon. You get longer for fiddling your tax return. Which yes is also a crime but fiddling your taxes is not even in the same fucking ballpark as raping kids. They routinely get bullshit sentences of four or five years for wrecking kids' entire lives. It is incomprehensible.

 

[Otterly]

I'd really like to know the names of the three lady MPs sitting in front of Rupert Lowe.

I’m squinting and on my phone but I think the white haired older lady is Caroline voaden, dark blonde is Liz Jarvis and the one in the coral jacket is vicky slade. All Lib Dems.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

I’m amazed she’s allowed to even mention the concept of white women and girls being hated by Muslims and foreigners.

Given her encounter with the police over the non-crime hate incident stuff I suspect both her and her bosses are dangling the bait in front of the police with this one. Either they have a very confident assurance from the lawyers or some solid cases they're planning to use when the outrage mob demand she be locked up for quadruple hate speech.

If I had to guess I suspect they are using very similar language to stuff said about Church of England recently (justifiably) not just in their pages but in many other papers and plan to ask why it's fine to call out their rot and not that present in other communities.

 

[Long and sneaky]

It is behind the Daily Telegraph paywall,

This shouldn't be behind a paywall for fucks sake.

That line, Lucy now knows for a fact, was pushed by Home Office officials. She has watched as junior ministers, both Conservative and Labour, have spun the same lines, “almost word for word, clearly at the behest of civil servants”.

Also a great point about the "civil" service, MPs rightfully get a lot of shit but they can be voted out. Civil servants have been perfectly happy to let this shit go on too but barely anyone seems to mention them.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Also a great point about the "civil" service, MPs rightfully get a lot of shit but they can be voted out. Civil servants have been perfectly happy to let this shit go on too but barely anyone seems to mention them.

The civil service needs entirely dismantling and replacing, pretty much on all levels. It's literally nothing but dark triad narcissists that enjoy wielding petty power over others.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

This shouldn't be behind a paywall for fucks sake.

Archive skips it. Share the article and teach people to archive everything in one fell swoop.

https://archive.ph/UBfdC

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

The civil service needs entirely dismantling and replacing, pretty much on all levels. It's literally nothing but dark triad narcissists that enjoy wielding petty power over others.

This. The civil service is the number one reason why nothing seems to work in this country, and the same stupid ideas get trotted out again and again.

The fact the sentence for sexual offences against children is anything other than life with a good 40 years punishment part is genuinely part of the reason children in the UK are constantly preyed upon. You get longer for fiddling your tax return. Which yes is also a crime but fiddling your taxes is not even in the same fucking ballpark as raping kids. They routinely get bullshit sentences of four or five years for wrecking kids' entire lives. It is incomprehensible.

Because everything in Britain is about class, and for whatever reason hating paedophiles is non-U.

 

[QE65]

Edit to add: @QE65 - pols taking a stand and actually doing something useful and non-retarded? Those days are long since gone mate.

True. But allowing them to sit on their hands for another few years whilst a public inquiry takes place isn't the way to make it any better.

Elon Musk has elevated the scandal to worldwide notoriety (even though it was front page news in the UK 13 years ago). Hopefully public pressure will get feet put to the fire and the gears of government moving. This might be optimistic, but like the postmaster scandal - it took a bunch of public interest to get things happening in the HoP.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

This might be optimistic, but like the postmaster scandal - it took a bunch of public interest to get things happening in the HoP.

Bear in mind that technically still very little has happened with the postmaster scandal.

What should happen is a long list of the upper echelons involved should be executed and all of their assets seized and used to fund compensation schemes for the wronged parties. Nothing even close to that will happen.

 

[sheepworldvizor]

Man, 43, accused of having sex with a Shetland pony after breaking into farm appears in court

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14262827/Man-sex-Shetland-pony-breaking-farm.html

https://archive.is/BHxfn

A man who was accused of breaking into a farm and having sex with a Shetland pony has appeared in court.

Damion Ogeare, 43, is accused of having sex with the animal in a stable after trespassing onto the farm in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

He appeared at Salisbury Crown Court, Wilts, for a plea and trial preparation hearing and spoke only to confirm his name.

But, the case was adjourned to allow him more time to seek advice on legal aid - so he did not formally accept or deny the offence.

The alleged offences took place at Maylands Farm on January 24 last year.

He is accused of breaking into a stables containing two Shetland ponies, and having sex with a female mare, called Cassieopia Wooley.

Damion Ogeare, 43, is accused of having sex with the little horse in a stable after trespassing onto the farm

Damion Ogeare, 43, is accused of having sex with the little horse in a stable after trespassing onto the farm
Ogeare appeared at Salisbury Crown Court, Wilts, (pictured) for a plea and trial preparation hearing and spoke only to confirm his name

'This defendant stands charged in relation to two offences,' Christina Norgan told an earlier hearing at the Magistrate court.

Ogeare will next appear at Salisbury Crown Court on February 27.

He previously denied one count of sexual penetration with a living animal, and one of recklessly trespassing on premises with intent to commit a relevant sexual offence.

Ogeare, who arrived to court wearing a black coat and sherpa hat, but did not enter a formal plea today as the hearing was adjourned.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

He is accused of breaking into a stables containing two Shetland ponies, and having sex with a female mare, called Cassieopia Wooley.

Horse people and their damn stupid names. That one has a 50/50 chance of being the steed or the rider.

Damion Ogeare

Then again the perpetrator being called Demon Ogre is not making the article less insane.

 

[isalaide]

Has this guy's ponysona and pony tumblr account been identified yet

 

[Big Judge Cock]

Amazing, they're not pretending he's a local lad.

Usually we get N'dugubu Gubugudu, of Swindon...

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

I heard that he didn't enter a plea because he's having trouble with his voice, he felt a little hoarse

 

[No. 7 cat]

Because the muslims are very new to the Green party and only joined because Labour isn't Pro-Palestine
So they vote Green as a protest vote
Muslims don't really seem to care about how woke the party is. All they care about is Palestine

Labour means more bennies, maximum pandering to Islam, and unlimited immigration (not that the Tories were much better) for the Paki. Palestine is important, but think the Moslem thinks firstly of increasing the power of their community. Homo tolerance is something for the whites. Labour is the best path for that ambition.