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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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Something that got my noggin joggin' recently was this little bit of news.
Work has begun on a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life from scratch, in what is believed to be a world first.
The research has been taboo until now because of concerns it could lead to designer babies or unforeseen changes for future generations.
But now the World's largest medical charity, the Wellcome Trust, has given an initial £10m to start the project and says it has the potential to do more good than harm by accelerating treatments for many incurable diseases.
Dr Julian Sale, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, who is part of the project, told BBC News the research was the next giant leap in biology.
"The sky is the limit. We are looking at therapies that will improve people's lives as they age, that will lead to healthier aging with less disease as they get older.
"We are looking to use this approach to generate disease-resistant cells we can use to repopulate damaged organs, for example in the liver and the heart, even the immune system," he said.
But critics fear the research opens the way for unscrupulous researchers seeking to create enhanced or modified humans.
Dr Pat Thomas, director of the campaign group Beyond GM, said: "We like to think that all scientists are there to do good, but the science can be repurposed to do harm and for warfare".
Details of the project were given to BBC News on the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, which mapped the molecules in human DNA and was also largely funded by Wellcome.

Every cell in our body contains a molecule called DNA which carries the genetic information it needs. DNA is built from just four much smaller blocks referred to as A, G, C and T, which are repeated over and over again in various combinations. Amazingly it contains all the genetic information that physically makes us who we are.
The Human Genome Project enabled scientists to read all human genes like a bar code. The new work that is getting under way, called the Synthetic Human Genome Project, potentially takes this a giant leap forward – it will allow researchers not just to read a molecule of DNA, but to create parts of it – maybe one day all of it - molecule by molecule from scratch.

Scientists will begin developing tools to create ever larger sections of human DNA
The scientists' first aim is to develop ways of building ever larger blocks of human DNA, up to the point when they have synthetically constructed a human chromosome. These contain the genes that govern our development, repair and maintenance.
These can then be studied and experimented on to learn more about how genes and DNA regulate our bodies.
Many diseases occur when these genes go wrong so the studies could lead to better treatments, according to Prof Matthew Hurles, director of the Wellcome Sanger Insititute which sequenced the largest proportion of the Human Genome.
"Building DNA from scratch allows us to test out how DNA really works and test out new theories, because currently we can only really do that by tweaking DNA in DNA that already exists in living systems".

These machines used to read human DNA may soon be used to write sections of it
The project's work will be confined to test tubes and dishes and there will be no attempt to create synthetic life. But the technology will give researchers unprecedented control over human living systems.
And although the project is hunting for medical benefits, there is nothing to stop unscrupulous scientists misusing the technology.
They could, for example, attempt to create biological weapons, enhanced humans or even creatures that have human DNA, according to Prof Bill Earnshaw, a highly respected genetic scientist at Edinburgh University who designed a method for creating artificial human chromosomes.
"The genie is out of the bottle," he told BBC News. "We could have a set of restrictions now, but if an organisation who has access to appropriate machinery decided to start synthesising anything, I don't think we could stop them"
Ms Thomas is concerned about how the technology will be commercialised by healthcare companies developing treatments emerging from the research.
"If we manage to create synthetic body parts or even synthetic people, then who owns them. And who owns the data from these creations? "
Given the potential misuse of the technology, the question for Wellcome is why they chose to fund it. The decision was not made lightly, according to Dr Tom Collins, who gave the funding go-ahead.
"We asked ourselves what was the cost of inaction," he told BBC News.
"This technology is going to be developed one day, so by doing it now we are at least trying to do it in as responsible a way as possible and to confront the ethical and moral questions in an upfront way as possible".
A dedicated social science programmewill run in tandem with the project's scientific development and will be led by Prof Joy Zhang, a sociologist, at the University of Kent.
"We want to get the views of experts, social scientists and especially the public about how they relate to the technology and how it can be beneficial to them and importanlty what questions and concerns they have," she said.
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Putting aside various typos and errors in the article the concept of building artificial DNA is fascinating. However, going with the UK's plan to DNA test all babies I am sat here wondering how easy this project will make it to fake evidence of people committing crimes.
 
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Morethanabitfoolish said:
Putting aside various typos and errors in the article the concept of building artificial DNA is fascinating. However, going with the UK's plan to DNA test all babies I am sat here wondering how easy this project will make it to fake evidence of people committing crimes.
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They can already plant false evidence or make it up. Designer DNA isn't needed when it's so easy to get DNA from anything someone touches.

Making fake DNA would be extremely dangerous. Until we understand how genes work and have the full picture anything we create will be riddled with problems and clashing systems. Our genetics turn on and off depending on our parents and grand parents experiences. Something grown in a lab will have none of those systematic influences flowing in the same direction.
 
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The biggest issue with the benefits system is the fundamental lack of jobs across the UK, and I mean jobs not "jobs". Every single fucking company in the UK is running as lean as possible because either A) they can't afford to hire more or B) they're working by the retarded effectiveness principle where you can just work the same 4 people to death instead of having a team of 8.

Where are the government entry level jobs where school leavers can go? Nowhere, the Civil Service, police, NHS, local council etc. are ALL cutting jobs. Your local McDonalds and Wetherspoons has an application list that's 20k names long. You want to get a minimum wage admin job? Have you got a Business Administration Level 2? No? Oh, then good luck with your job search :)

So what happens when someone doesn't manage to get a graduate job in a year? They're now in the same pool as fresh graduates from the next year, fucking them over harder and making them more unemployable by the week. There's no doubt in my mind this is why the absolute rise in PIP and unemployment has gone bezerk, people have done well in school, done well in 6th form, done well in University to be in contention with a billion people for the same minimum wage job, naturally a load are going to give up and become lifelong PIP/Doleys.

Make more government jobs, even if they're fucking bloat jobs that don't really do much and the economy will begin to thrive again. The bonus? On paper more work will actually fucking get done. More passports will be processed, more driving licences will be processed, more admin in mission critical roles will be processed. Instead the government is wanting more AI to replace the entry level posts which is going to make the situation even worse.
 
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It's over, it's beyond over at this point.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...old-water-reeves-claim-economy-turned-corner/

When your bank turns on the entire government, it's over. The operator is usually very apolitical but to do this is just damning but he is of course correct.

The amount of jobs out there is dismal, the finance sector atm is fucked my history is in nursing and accountancy but the job pool is so limited. I know from one of my applications that one received over 3000 for an entry-level job. The market is not only enemic, it's dead. If your natives cannot move jobs and are paralyzed, then you are operating under an illusion.
 
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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
Make more government jobs
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This is this is dull socialist thinking that got us where we are; do not give people free shit under any circumstances, feeding the animals creates a dependency that cannot easily be undone, the government is a teat far too many people are attached to already.
What the field needs is a fire to burn off the chaff not more overgrowth.
 
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This mother fucker was uppricing Yorkshire Tea. Odd question, I want a good tea, I always have mine with milk, may I have some recommendations from the masses, please?
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Yorkshire Tea + Rington's Tea, or Yorkshire Tea + Twining's English Breakfast. Both suggestions in the same cup. I suggest drinking tea out of a mug that's at least the size of a Sports Direct mug, bigger if you can find it.
 
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but i thought importing infinite africans and pakis was a boost to the economy
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Only when the economy is doing well. When it's like this, importing infinite browns is the right thing to do. Don't you have empathy?!?
 
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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
The biggest issue with the benefits system is the fundamental lack of jobs across the UK, and I mean jobs not "jobs". Every single fucking company in the UK is running as lean as possible because either A) they can't afford to hire more or B) they're working by the retarded effectiveness principle where you can just work the same 4 people to death instead of having a team of 8.

Where are the government entry level jobs where school leavers can go? Nowhere, the Civil Service, police, NHS, local council etc. are ALL cutting jobs. Your local McDonalds and Wetherspoons has an application list that's 20k names long. You want to get a minimum wage admin job? Have you got a Business Administration Level 2? No? Oh, then good luck with your job search :)

So what happens when someone doesn't manage to get a graduate job in a year? They're now in the same pool as fresh graduates from the next year, fucking them over harder and making them more unemployable by the week. There's no doubt in my mind this is why the absolute rise in PIP and unemployment has gone bezerk, people have done well in school, done well in 6th form, done well in University to be in contention with a billion people for the same minimum wage job, naturally a load are going to give up and become lifelong PIP/Doleys.

Make more government jobs, even if they're fucking bloat jobs that don't really do much and the economy will begin to thrive again. The bonus? On paper more work will actually fucking get done. More passports will be processed, more driving licences will be processed, more admin in mission critical roles will be processed. Instead the government is wanting more AI to replace the entry level posts which is going to make the situation even worse.
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One of my biggest pet peeve is local shops being taken over by pakis. Every village shop is 5 or so jobs. Great for mothers with kids at school, the type of extra income that makes it possible for a family to survive but always have a parent there for the kids. They're all pakis now, 10 pakis running the village shop and giving you the stink eye if you go in.
 
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Kier Starmer said:
It's over, it's beyond over at this point.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...old-water-reeves-claim-economy-turned-corner/

When your bank turns on the entire government, it's over. The operator is usually very apolitical but to do this is just damning but he is of course correct.

The amount of jobs out there is dismal, the finance sector atm is fucked my history is in nursing and accountancy but the job pool is so limited. I know from one of my applications that one received over 3000 for an entry-level job. The market is not only enemic, it's dead. If your natives cannot move jobs and are paralyzed, then you are operating under an illusion.
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As a part of my job I get to see all the records on people coming and going from the business and right now it's dire. So many people are leaving and each and every time they always get replaced with a brown or a black.

We are honestly not a real country at this point, we are a large open air job centre.
 
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As a part of my job I get to see all the records on people coming and going from the business and right now it's dire. So many people are leaving and each and every time they always get replaced with a brown or a black.

We are honestly not a real country at this point, we are a large open air job centre.
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A job center actually has jobs to hand out not just fag flags.

The local council has put up posters every where for faggot month. I thought Reform had taken over this area and had cancelled all that shit. What happened?
 
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Open borders advocate Nicholas Decker on Pakistani grooming gangs in Britain: ''I am far happier that these men are doing these crimes in Britain than Pakistan because Britain has a modern police force more likely to arrest them.''

He also pragmatically points out if their all noncing in Britain then there's less nonces everywhere else in the world.
 
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A-Logato said:
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1921461476398616842
Open borders advocate Nicholas Decker on Pakistani grooming gangs in Britain: ''I am far happier that these men are doing these crimes in Britain than Pakistan because Britain has a modern police force more likely to arrest them.''

He also pragmatically points out if their all noncing in Britain then there's less nonces everywhere else in the world.
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I think Nicholas Decker should be killed along with his entire family. Clearly his bloodline is poison. The North Koreans have the right idea about these sorts of people.
 
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A-Logato said:
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1921461476398616842
Open borders advocate Nicholas Decker on Pakistani grooming gangs in Britain: ''I am far happier that these men are doing these crimes in Britain than Pakistan because Britain has a modern police force more likely to arrest them.''

He also pragmatically points out if their all noncing in Britain then there's less nonces everywhere else in the world.
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I hope he would be equally happy that right wing anti-nonce death squads were operating in Britain rather than abroad. We owe it to the browns, really.
 
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Kier Starmer said:
It's over, it's beyond over at this point.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...old-water-reeves-claim-economy-turned-corner/

When your bank turns on the entire government, it's over. The operator is usually very apolitical but to do this is just damning but he is of course correct.

The amount of jobs out there is dismal, the finance sector atm is fucked my history is in nursing and accountancy but the job pool is so limited. I know from one of my applications that one received over 3000 for an entry-level job. The market is not only enemic, it's dead. If your natives cannot move jobs and are paralyzed, then you are operating under an illusion.
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Agreed.

Remember that 'Keys' bloke at the 2024 Election - well, I've come up with my own set to see whether or not Starmer will be able to stay on:

1) Leadership

Does Starmer inspire as a leader, is he strong and stable or weak and wobbly? Is he respected by the electorate and perceived to be doing a good job overall since July 2024?

No.

2) Economy

Is Starmer and his Government beneficial to the economy? Have they got economic issues under control and are they keeping taxes and the cost of living low or at least at a sensible rate?

No.

3) National Security

Is Starmer and his Government keeping the people safe from threats from outside? Do we have a strong and resilient Military Force and can they defend the country in case of war?

No.

4) Political Challenges

Since being elected as PM, has Starmer seen off the political challenges of other parties and has his party stayed above other parties in political ratings (Ipsos/Mori etc.)

No.

5) International Reputation

Is Starmer seen as a positive among the international circuit? Do other countries and leaders respect him?

Yes, but only partly.

Starmer barely scrapes 1/5 - IMO you'd need at least 3/5 to even be seen as a fairly decent leader.

Therefore, when even the financial institutions are worried, we need to accept that the inevitable is coming.
 
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Who ended up being the TBA on the pyramid stage at glasto in the end?
 
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