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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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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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Tzeentch said:
You know things are beyond fucked when even redditors are complaining about the politically correct indoctrination.

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The headaches [sic] later added: "We are exploring alternative ways to celebrate the season in future years, that will be inclusive of all children and reflect the rich cultural diversity of our community."
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Even stranger, it seems to be a mostly Christian/British area.

Census data: Religion / National Identity

Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
The head teacher in question of this “decision”

> Ms Steph Mander
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Can I say "Never trust a 'Ms'" yet? It seems to be the "new" blue hair, nose ring, etc.
 
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Otterly said:
If you can find some positive news, do post it.
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Ofcom dropped even more cases against GB News after losing some on appeal. Of course that is tempered by the fact that they're now investigating them for saying the LGBTQ community includes pedos.
Ofcom has dropped all of its remaining impartiality investigations into politicians' TV and radio programmes, following a High Court decision to overturn the media regulator's past rulings against Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg's GB News show.
Last month, a judge decided that Ofcom had unlawfully ruled that Sir Jacob's programme had broken its impartiality code.
Ofcom has now discontinued the remaining six investigations into possible breaches of rules prohibiting politicians from presenting news programmes.
It has dropped probes into Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on GB News, Foreign Secretary David Lammy on LBC, and Conservative former minister Jake Berry on TalkTV and Local TV.
It has also discontinued investigations into a show hosted by former Brexit Party MEP Alex Phillips on TalkTV, and another fronted by former Reform UK deputy leader David Bull when he was guest host of Morning Glory on the same channel.
Last week, Ofcom also withdrew three previous rulings against GB News programmes hosted by Conservative MP Esther McVey and her husband, former MP Philip Davies.

GB News chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos said: "Since the recent landmark High Court ruling finding that Ofcom acted unlawfully, a total of 11 cases against GB News and other UK broadcasters have now either been quashed, unwound or abandoned.
"Following the withdrawal of five breach decisions against GB News, now Ofcom has revealed that it is 'not pursuing' the case against the GB News programme, Farage and five others from other UK broadcasters - another vindication of GB News editorial decision making."
He added that the broadcaster would "vigorously defend the channel and our presenters' freedom of speech rights".
Following the High Court ruling, Ofcom said it would consult on changes to its broadcasting code, which says a politician can't be a newsreader, interviewer or reporter in a news programme "unless, exceptionally, it is editorially justified". The current rules say they can, however, front current affairs shows.

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Meanwhile, Ofcom has launched an investigation into comments a GB News presenter made about the LGBT community.
During an episode of Headliners on 22 January, while discussing a sermon given by a US bishop, presenter Josh Howie appeared to suggest the LGBT community included paedophiles.
Howie has since said his programme is a comedy show and his comment was intended as a "joke about paedophilia in the church".
Ofcom said it had received 1,382 complaints directly, while The Good Law Project had gathered 71,851 complaints.
An Ofcom spokesperson said: "We are investigating whether this programme broke our rule which requires that material which may cause offence must be justified by the context."
Mr Frangopoulos said he did "not believe there was a breach of the rules" in the programme.
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Naturally The Good Law Project is involved.
 
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Overly Serious said:
There was a massive wave of Jewish proselytisation around 900AD-1100AD where a lot of modern "Jews" come from, i.e. converts. A modern Ashkenazi jew is largely Western European. Jesus predates that by a thousand years. Lord knows what Jesus looked like (if you'll pardon the figure of speech in this context) but probably sort of Palestinian; who are usually quite light-skinned.
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Jesus was from Yorkshire, you filthy heretic.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Have they ever won a case (in a way that didn't immediately backfire)?
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Near as I can tell they don't bring many cases themselves but they enable some awful behaviour. As demonstrated here by them being given favourable BBC coverage and Ofcom letting them collate complaints with no doubt little to no real verification.

They're one more slimy little organisation that people cite as proof of something despite them being utterly unreliable and biased beyond compare.
 
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I half remember the Good Law Project from my days with the Skeptic movement. Is weirdo David Allen Greene involved with them or am I thinking of an organisation with a similar name?

EDIT ah, it the kimono wearing fox torturer. I must be thinking of a different group.


I hope you all like strikes. Lots of strikes. Wil be fun watching the BBC carrying water for the government on this one.

If you are worried you’ll be affected by this all I can say is get a real job.
 
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I hope you all like strikes. Lots of strikes. Wil be fun watching the BBC carrying water for the government on this one.

If you are worried you’ll be affected by this all I can say is get a real job.
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She should start with the Cabinet Office. According to the internet, it has over 10,200 staff to support the Prime Minister and the Cabinet.

Over 10,200? Overstaffed.
 
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FedPostalService said:

I hope you all like strikes. Lots of strikes. Wil be fun watching the BBC carrying water for the government on this one.

If you are worried you’ll be affected by this all I can say is get a real job.
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While public service cuts don't have to be a bad thing, just be mindful that often they make these cuts and bring in "contractors" to do the same work at a higher pay as a jobs-for-mates thing.
The conservative government did that here in Australia. These look like immediate "cost savings" until someone peeks at the books and sees what is actually being paid out.
It can also include offshoring of jobs, so more Pajeets handling data I guess. Maybe it'll be different because Labour is in charge of doing it there but I remain skeptical.

I think it's also important to track what they're keeping if they're cutting jobs, they should be grilled regularly about any dindu expenses including NGO funding or contracts and any "celebrate diversity shit".

If the belt has to be tightened so that 10,000 people are out of work then the government doesn't have the money to fund drag queen/tranny nonsense or gibs for Islamic/Hindu shit.
 
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Guntsress Of Diabeteeze said:
Will there ever be any positivity in this thread? Can we make a trend of having only positive news? For at least, one day? Or is that far-fetched?
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I nearly started a thread in the self sufficiency board. We're living in a low trust society now. How do we prepare for that?

Social media is full of reports of doctors and engineers filming kids, attempting to abduct kids, following women, trying doors. Cuts to public services mean more burglaries, thefts, violent shop lifters, less help for the mentally ill, less police.

When I was a nipper and this was all fields we left doors open, left bikes in the street and no one culturally enhanced our children or stole our shit.

So we have cctv outside the house. We have fences. We have gravel at the entrance to our gardens. We made sure to get to know our neighbours, keep an eye out for each other. We involve ourselves in school and community events. We volunteer at two of the local youth groups.

What other positive things can we do?

My local councillors, MP and MSP don't want to hear how upset everyone is at whole blocks of flats being done up for immigrants, how our small schools are getting crowded, how the men in the empty barber shops sit on stools in the street and leer, how the paki shops sell vapes to kids.

We need to look after each other. Look out for each other.

Give me hats and rainbows.
 
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