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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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The remainer food meme is weird. It's based on truth but you'd think they'd jump at the chance to encourage people to buy locally. It's stupid that so much food is shipped around the EU and grown, processed, packaged, etc in different countries like specialist car parts.
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They're dumb enough to fall for the pro-French agriculture propaganda.
 
Irrelevant said:
The remainer food meme is weird. It's based on truth but you'd think they'd jump at the chance to encourage people to buy locally. It's stupid that so much food is shipped around the EU and grown, processed, packaged, etc in different countries like specialist car parts.
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You can still get cheap prosecco in Based America.
 
If food staples had went up by £4 in 3 years i’d be shitting brick but no I don’t care about the price rise of some luxury item and neither should they.

Fruit and veg is still cheap so are most meat products the only thing I’ve really seen creep up is milk and that was because dairy farmers wanting more cash. Gone are the days you can get a 4 pint carton for £1.

As been said above buy local and just shop around a little.
 
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Tate Modern: Boy, six, 'thrown from 10th floor'

A teenager is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police says.
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A six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, police said.

He landed on a fifth floor roof and was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST on Sunday.

The boy's condition is described as critical.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police said.

They said the six-year-old was thrown from a viewing platform.

"We treated a person at the scene and took them to hospital as a priority," a London Ambulance Service (LAS) spokesman said.

A police spokesman said there was "nothing to suggest [the suspect] is known to the victim".
The teenager had remained on the platform after the boy fell, police said.
Visitors were initially locked inside the gallery at Bankside on the South Bank.

'Where's my son?'

Admin worker Nancy Barnfield, 47, of Rochdale, was at the 10th floor viewing gallery with a friend and their children when her friend heard a "loud bang".
Ms Barnfield said she turned around and saw a woman screaming: "Where's my son, where's my son?"
Members of the public quickly gathered around a man who was nearby, she said.
Ms Barnfield said: "We did not notice the mum before, we noticed her after because she was hysterical by then."
She said the person who was restrained by members of the public before the police arrived "just stood there and was quite calm".

Stretcher carried
Eyewitness Stuart Haggas said he saw emergency crews moving along the roof between the gallery's Turbine Hall and its recent extension.
"They were carrying a stretcher with someone on it," he said, "plus a second stretcher was waiting by the door."
BBC correspondent Jonny Dymond, who was also there, said visitors were "funnelled towards the main Turbine Hall and the exits were all closed".
"There were quite a lot of families with children, and security guards told us we couldn't leave," he said.
"There were at least two fire engines, 10 police cars and an incident control unit. Parts of the exterior of the building were taped off."
The Tate Modern opened in the disused power station on the River Thames in 2000.
It was the UK's most popular tourist attraction in 2018 with 5.9m visitors, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions.
 
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This could either go 2 ways i think:

A) Was a cunt and just wanted to kill a kid
B) As a result of the notoriously shit child & teen mental health services in the UK (CAMHS), untreated mental illness, voices told him to yeet the kid or something

Hope i'm wrong, but CAMHS is so shite i wouldn't be surprised
 
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Since it happened in a Art Gallery i think that ''Mental illness'' is the more probable option.
Even if the child manages to survive i wonder what kind of life he will inherit...is it even worth it?
 
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