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https://news.sky.com/story/row-over-new-greggs-vegan-sausage-rolls-heats-up-11597679 (https://archive.ph/5Ba6o)

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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Johan Schmidt said:
I've known we had these absurd payments going out year after year since like 2010 now, but everytime I get reminded that they still exist it infuriates me. We're spending like 3 billion on African railways. Our own fucking railways don't work! I genuinely cannot tell if it's some insane lysenko style belief in the cause, or if it's a scam somehow. But either way, it annoys me.
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Not to mention the endless problems with the NHS, inflation and recession, the masses of debt from 2020. I know it’s oh-so-British-haha-aren’t-we-eccentric to be all ‘oh no I couldn’t possibly, you have the last biscuit’ but it’s really not the the time to be covering the costs for other countries.
 
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COP27: Ukraine a reason to act fast on climate change - Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak tells the COP27 summit in Egypt a greener planet is possible and there "is room for hope".
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Spend even more money we don't have, even faster, to fix a problem that isn't real so we can justify sending trillions to unaccountable NGOs! Eat the bugs!

Truss was the judas goat to get Sunak into the top seat. BoJo wasn't moving fast enough for their liking.
 
Of course our pussified government's response to a literal invasion by sea is to pay France a ton of money to sit on their arse and continue doing nothing.

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The real answer to this is to nuke Albania. And would anyone shed a tear if we did?
 
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Scottish hospitals warned over isolating transwomen​

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Guidance for Scotland’s biggest health board also says that any woman who complains about a transwoman sharing their ward should be advised that “the ward is indeed female-only and that there are no men present”.
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So, they think women are pretty stupid, huh?

Also, I fucking despair at the sheer anti-science nature of accepting that you can somehow become "female" just by thinking it. Aren't these people supposed to be experts on the human body? There's another thread in A&N about how women need different football boots to men (due to bone structure, density, foot size etc), but transwomen are good to take "female" medication? That's not gonna have any adverse effects?

Anyway, I really think the SNP have called this wrong. The anti-trans movement (or "gender critical" movement if you like, although I have no problem with just calling myself anti-trans) feels like it's picking up steam in the UK. You see politicians that were hemming and hawing a couple of years ago about how to answer "what is a woman" now just giving straightforward answers. They've figured out the way the wind is blowing on this one.
 
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So, they think women are pretty stupid, huh?

Also, I fucking despair at the sheer anti-science nature of accepting that you can somehow become "female" just by thinking it. Aren't these people supposed to be experts on the human body? There's another thread in A&N about how women need different football boots to men (due to bone structure, density, foot size etc), but transwomen are good to take "female" medication? That's not gonna have any adverse effects?

Anyway, I really think the SNP have called this wrong. The anti-trans movement (or "gender critical" movement if you like, although I have no problem with just calling myself anti-trans) feels like it's picking up steam in the UK. You see politicians that were hemming and hawing a couple of years ago about how to answer "what is a woman" now just giving straightforward answers. They've figured out the way the wind is blowing on this one.
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It also doesn't help that a still unidentified UK hospital pulled that shit on a woman who was raped by a trans which, because of how the laws for rape work in the UK (only rape if a penis is used, otherwise it's sexual assault) led to a long drawn out headache for all involved. I am still wildly optimistic there's a lawsuit to come out of that.

The SNP are all in on it though and will not back out.
 
Clem Fandango said:
So, they think women are pretty stupid, huh?

Also, I fucking despair at the sheer anti-science nature of accepting that you can somehow become "female" just by thinking it. Aren't these people supposed to be experts on the human body? There's another thread in A&N about how women need different football boots to men (due to bone structure, density, foot size etc), but transwomen are good to take "female" medication? That's not gonna have any adverse effects?

Anyway, I really think the SNP have called this wrong. The anti-trans movement (or "gender critical" movement if you like, although I have no problem with just calling myself anti-trans) feels like it's picking up steam in the UK. You see politicians that were hemming and hawing a couple of years ago about how to answer "what is a woman" now just giving straightforward answers. They've figured out the way the wind is blowing on this one.
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Do you not find it really weird that it even needs to pick up steam? Only an academic, or a politician could ever look at a gaggle of perverts in dresses, calling women sluts, whores and rapebait. Then conclude that they better err on the side of caution and see which way the public will feel about said gaggle. It's bizarre.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
Do you not find it really weird that it even needs to pick up steam? Only an academic, or a politician could ever look at a gaggle of perverts in dresses, calling women sluts, whores and rapebait. Then conclude that they better err on the side of caution and see which way the public will feel about said gaggle. It's bizarre.
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Tbh no, I don't think politicians are really human. They just try to guess what humans think and how they feel.
 
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