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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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spread happiness@p4leandp1nk
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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]

US politics and British politics crossover happened
Closet homosexual Rory Stewart has once again made a fool of himself. He tried to claim that US Vice president and kiwifarms poster JD Vance is a pagan and not a true Christian because he said you should care more for the immediate family, local community and fellow countrymen more than rapefugees and low IQ third worlders.
However Vance was not gonna take this shit lying down. After only 8 hours Vance responded, calling Rory a midwit faggot and giving him a ratio that Keffals would be proud of.
Edit: Rory, Not satisfied with the beat down Vance gave him has come back asking for seconds and behaved exactly how Vance described him.
Has he got a humiliation fetish or something?

 

[BongoMongo]

US politics and British politics crossover happened
Closet homosexual Rory Stewart has once again made a fool of himself. He tried to claim that US Vice president and kiwifarms poster JD Vance is a pagan and not a true Christian because he said you should care more for the immediate family, local community and fellow countrymen more than rapefugees and low IQ third worlders.
However Vance was not gonna take this shit lying down. After only 8 hours Vance responded, calling Rory a midwit faggot and giving him a ratio that Keffals would be proud of.View attachment 6924386View attachment 6924389
Edit: Rory, Not satisfied with the beat down Vance gave him has come back asking for seconds and behaved exactly how Vance described him.
Has he got a humiliation fetish or something?
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I'm confused. Didn't Christ himself say love thy neighbor? Communities themselves are best placed to serve their needs and help the needy within them. Anyone who has read Thatchers "there is no such thing as society" speech in full would be able to tell you conservatism advocates such as well.

Love yourself, and care for you and yours and focus on those surrounding you after. Third world shit holes come way waaaaaayyy down the list. Just like Jesus would have wanted.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

It's one of those concepts that's definitely there, but scattered here and there and not in one quotable passage. Though "honour your father and mother" comes close - presumably Rory never got as far as the Ten Commandments.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

It's always funny to me that twitter and the internet has allowed people to have these sorts of little spats, when what would happen in reality is that Rory - being a skinny, slimy, cowardly gruff nug - would simply seethe in the corner and get called a 'specky twat' if he ever spoke up. Mass Media has allowed the human algae to put itself forward in ways that more simple societies simply would not have.

 

[Me Love You Long Time]

US politics and British politics crossover happened
Closet homosexual Rory Stewart has once again made a fool of himself. He tried to claim that US Vice president and kiwifarms poster JD Vance is a pagan and not a true Christian because he said you should care more for the immediate family, local community and fellow countrymen more than rapefugees and low IQ third worlders.
However Vance was not gonna take this shit lying down. After only 8 hours Vance responded, calling Rory a midwit faggot and giving him a ratio that Keffals would be proud of.View attachment 6924386View attachment 6924389
Edit: Rory, Not satisfied with the beat down Vance gave him has come back asking for seconds and behaved exactly how Vance described him.
Has he got a humiliation fetish or something?
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Britbongs stay losing

 

[P 0 P 5]

It's always funny to me that twitter and the internet has allowed people to have these sorts of little spats, when what would happen in reality is that Rory - being a skinny, slimy, cowardly gruff nug - would simply seethe in the corner and get called a 'specky twat' if he ever spoke up. Mass Media has allowed the human algae to put itself forward in ways that more simple societies simply would not have.

Agreed, just not in Rory's case. He's simple old school money and power (Scottish family wealth / Diplomat-MI6 Father / Eton/ Oxford PPE / Royal tutor)
He's so obviously a rich manlet student debate club Labour member socialist, and yet ends up in the Tories (scum) .
He is literal regime plant uniparty civil service swamp creature

 

[6MillionCoofs]

Lmao.

BBC considering expanding the license fee to streaming services and taxing the services, also adds.

How bad is it when you are considering reversing all the reasons and principles on which you were founded.

I’m sure Adds will go well when they are all bought byRight Wingers.

Just imagine, them having to pause to add read something they hate

 

[Ken Barlow]

Do these fools not know the best way to knoife someone is with a slash? Unless you know what you're doing if you're stabbing with a pierce you're doing it wrong, gotta spill the guts with sideways angle. At least they've finally moved on and officially clocked on to most "offensive weapons" being nabbed out of mum's kitchen cabinet and not some zombie machete imported from murderland. Complete boondoggle as always.

It's like when your mum stabs you, I mean, you don't get angry, you don't get upset.

You just go "oh shit my mum stabbed me I better get myself off to the hospital"

NHS FTW #FRONTLINESTAFF

 

[InteracialBowelSyndrome]

Courts refuse to lock up violent and repeat offenders, and Two Tier Kier thinks he's gonna tackle crime by removing the pointy bits? Jog on.

 

[A-Logato]

Does labour not realise that a knife can stab and slash? A rounded end is better for slashing as the tip, unless razor sharp, snags on flesh, bone and clothing.
Making all knives have a rounded tip is pointless. Pun intended.

Labour seems to forget that the next most popular stabbing weapon is a screwdriver and that prisons for years have taught people that you can make a knife out anything.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Labour seems to forget that the next most popular stabbing weapon is a screwdriver and that prisons for years have taught people that you can make a knife out anything.

It's a work implement, there's zero chance of niggers owning one of them.

 

[Kier Starmer]

The streaming TV license tax is beyond retarded because one of the elements of it additionally was that the streaming platforms were essentially going to be tariffed. So they are going to double tax companies and people and it will incentivize people to use VPNs or encourage the corporations to back out entirely. Again all this government tries to do is tax and bleed because they have no ideas.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

>Make sites with 'adult content' force viewers to give real life ID
>Force streaming services to require License fee
>Streaming sites also have adult content and will require ID to view
>BBC has more data on the people so it can push more effective propaganda.

Coppers will know your address and details so that can expedite the arrests for giving Cuties 1/5 stars.

 

[>IMPLYING]

>Make sites with 'adult content' force viewers to give real life ID
>Force streaming services to require License fee
>Streaming sites also have adult content and will require ID to view
>BBC has more data on the people so it can push more effective propaganda.

Coppers will know your address and details so that can expedite the arrests for giving Cuties 1/5 stars.

Funny thing is even with all those advantages the propaganda they make will still be shit. Politicians and creatives know what people want - it's reflected in what actually sells and what's received positively - but they still can't do it. Weaving subversive shit into an actually digestible and watchable show is beyond their capabilities.

 

[Karen of Human Resources]

The streaming TV license tax is beyond retarded because one of the elements of it additionally was that the streaming platforms were essentially going to be tariffed. So they are going to double tax companies and people and it will incentivize people to use VPNs or encourage the corporations to back out entirely. Again all this government tries to do is tax and bleed because they have no ideas.

I'd more readily expect this to turn into an Internet tax.

If you have to pay for permission to use the Internet, the government will know if you personally are using a VPN on your internet passport. Que outlawing VPNs as dangerous for the children/being racist/being facist/killing Gazans.

All glory to the eternal son of the toolmaker, most beloved leader of the socialist revolution.

 

[Coolio55]

I'd more readily expect this to turn into an Internet tax.

I don't forsee an adequacy.org style "internet insurance" coming into force anytime soon.
How the hell are those awful ambient "smart" gadgets supposed to function if every "user" needs a valid ID?

 

[Kier Starmer]

I don't even want to think of the ramifications in terms of internet security and privacy this would entail because let's just get to brass tax it is an internet tax. What does that even entail for visitors coming into the country? What about 4g as technically that is something you can stream on, I imagine that would kill screen time. I know the fucker wants to kill free speech but what they want is authoritarian as hell.

All for saving shit like EastEnders and the Traitors, Was it worth it Kier?

Every day I just preempt myself with what insane shit I will hear Rachel from Accounts say or the Automaton. We literally have Tasha the Slapper as Deputy PM.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

What does that even entail for visitors coming into the country?

Same as everything else; it doesn't apply to them.

 

[QE65]

It is more than a little annoying seeing the BBC adverts with the "Hi, it's your friendly neighbourhood newscaster here, reporting the stories that matter to you - because we care about YOU" when they're an organization that's hiring private companies to send goons to visit frail elderly people, and bullying them into paying the license fee.

It's immensely satisfying opening the door to one of these TV licensing bods and telling them to fuck off (politely of course).

 

[Mound Dweller]

The powers that be continue to disassociate themselves from the failed stratagem of the troon menace, for those who missed it: Keria Bell is the ex-pooner who detransitioned and won her case which was what flipped the Overton window and rocket boosted the current snowball of TTD:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4md23dgg2o/https://archive.is/g8vNZ

Spoiler: Campaigner launches bid to ban cross-sex hormones for under-18s

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is being threatened with legal action if he does not ban the private sale of cross-sex hormones such as testosterone to under 18s.
Lawyers acting for three people - including campaigner Keira Bell - have written to Streeting urging him to introduce a ban as he has done for puberty blockers for children questioning their gender identity.
Ms Bell says her life has been "flipped upside down" by taking the drugs that have some irreversible effects. The other two people involved are parents and wish to remain anonymous.
Cross-sex hormone therapy is used to help people transition to a different gender from the one they were born into.

In December the health secretary announced an indefinite ban on puberty-suppressing drugs for gender dysphoria.
But in a letter sent by Sinclairs Law, Streeting has been told the law firm will seek a judicial review - a way of challenging the lawfulness of a decision by a public body - unless he follows suit with cross-sex hormones.
The lawyers said private clinics are providing these to under 18s, despite the fact that they pose at least an equal risk as puberty blockers.
The letter, seen by the BBC, points to potential health risks to children's developing brains, bones and reproductive system.
Keira Bell has previously taken legal action against the NHS - after her treatment when she was a teenager more than a decade ago at what was then the only NHS gender clinic.
She was given puberty blockers at 16 and then the male hormone testosterone at 17 before having surgery to remove her breasts.
Ms Bell, 28, told BBC News: "I was very vulnerable and was dealing with a lot of issues.
"With cross-sex hormones... it changes not only your physical and mental state, but also your social state, especially for females who are taking testosterone. I'm one of those people."
The hormones can cause irreversible effects, such as voice deepening.
She said: "My whole life has been flipped upside down and there's no way back from it."
Ms Bell says she wants to protect other young people from going through similar regret.
"Things can feel very urgent so it is important for young people to remember that your whole life is ahead of you.
"This sort of protection needs to be put into law," she says.

Paul Conrathe, the lawyer who is representing Ms Bell and the two other individuals, said: "Given what we know about the unscrupulous and harmful practices of unregulated overseas gender clinics it is remarkable that the secretary of state has not banned the prescription of cross-sex hormones.
"He banned puberty blockers, but failed to ban even more harmful cross-sex hormones that expose children to irreversible lifelong changes.
"This harmful trade continues unashamed and emboldened at the failure of the government to protect vulnerable children."
The Department of Health and Social Care did not respond directly to the threat of a judicial review, but said it was working with regulators to tighten up rules around private provision of cross-sex hormones.
A spokesman pointed out that the landmark Cass Review into gender care published last year did not call for a ban of cross-sex hormones for those aged 16 to 18.
He added that "additional safeguards" were being put in place in the NHS with a group of health professionals now reviewing cases before cross-sex hormones are given to young people.
The NHS can prescribe cross-sex hormones to under 18s.
But the Cass Review found that there was a lack of research and "weak evidence" for medical interventions.
As a result, NHS England wrote to all NHS gender clinics saying "extreme caution" should be exercised before recommending cross-sex hormones for under 18s.
Changes are being made to the way NHS gender services for children are run with a move away from medical interventions and a greater focus on wider needs, including with mental health. Puberty blockers are no longer used by them at all - except in clinical trials.
The legal move comes as the courts continue to hear the case involving a mother who is trying to stop her 16-year-old being given cross-sex hormones to change their gender.
The case will return to the High Court on Friday.
Between the ages of 16 and 18, whilst not legally an adult, a young person is usually viewed as being able to make their own medical decisions.

The language remains flowery and the gov is trying to save face by pretending to fight it but the pro twans angle grows blunter by the day the it seems.