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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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Calling someone who worked for BuzzFeed a Journalist is a massive disrespectful fuck you to real journalists.
 
Extinction rebellion. I thought this group was going to be white guys protesting their extinction from mass immigration of brown and black people replacing white people in Europe, and fighting to try and prevent white extinction.
 
Shiversblood said:
Extinction rebellion. I thought this group was going to be white guts protesting their extinction from mass immigration of brown and black people replacing white people in Europe, and fighting to try and prevent white extinction.
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Oooh, I smell an opportunity for 4chan/8chan/whateverchan to do its thing
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Ginger Piglet said:
Most energy in Soviet era Poland was produced from brown coal. This is quite possibly the filthiest form of energy generation imaginable because it is only about 60 percent carbon, the rest of it is literal crap such as sulphur, ammonia, nitrogen, etc.
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It's such poor quality, I've heard it likened to trying to burn peat moss. Even the US never had to resort to using that crap, we've always had the luxury of having soft bituminous (70% -80% pure) in abundance.

Not only does it make a lot of pollution, but, you have to burn more of it for the same amount of energy you'd get from hard or soft black coals.... so you have to mine more of it, so, the environmental problems of excessive strip mining follow, another thing Poland had to deal with in the tumultuous years of post-Soviet life. Because now, not only was it dirty, and whole villages being obliterated in mining operations (The imminent-domain laws from the Soviet era let them pretty much buy you out for barely anything if you were in the way. ), but now on top of it all.... it had to somehow turn a profit.

P. J. O'rourke went to a few of the old Soviet satellites post-USSR and was amazed that in Poland they were tearing down historic buildings and even a castle because it was in the way of the national coal company.

Even something as mercenary as your typical US corporation would never have dreamed of tearing down something like that....
 
TowinKarz said:
P. J. O'rourke went to a few of the old Soviet satellites post-USSR and was amazed that in Poland they were tearing down historic buildings and even a castle because it was in the way of the national coal company.
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They dont care because its german history and not Polish.
 
The British police published the dox of the protesters:
http://news.met.police.uk/news/upda...ged-in-connection-with-london-protests-366498
A total of 40 people have been charged in connection with ongoing Extinction Rebellion protests in central London.

Charges have been made for various offences including breach of Section 14 Notice of the Public Order Act 1986, obstructing a highway and obstructing police.

Those charged are:
  • Steven Melia, 56 (12.05.1962) of St Philips, Bristol
  • Peter Scott, 65 (31.07.1953) of South Brent, Devon
  • Francesca Legere, 28 (23.12.1990) – address unknown
  • Patrick Thelwell, 19 (20.07.1999) of Wycliffe Avenue, York
  • Dave Hall, 66 (24.10.1952) of Alexandra Road, Frome
  • Genevieve Scherer, 72 (31.07.1946) of Leppoc Road, Lambeth
  • Christopher Court-Dobson, 30 (11.11.1988) of Northload Street, Glastonbury
  • Jeremy David Parker, 51 (20.01.1968) of Sterling Place, Ealing
  • Kathryn Shipp, 55 (15.01.1964) of Longton Avenue, Lewisham
  • Joseph Hesmondhalgh, 20 (27.03.1999) of Hollingwood Gate, Bradford
  • Jason Pettitt, 44 (25.08.1974) of Manor Road, Colchester
  • Angela Zelter, 67 (05.06.1951) of Church Street, Powys
  • Tim Speers, 33 (14.05.1985) of Wickham Road, Beckenham
  • Mark Richards, 43 (10.01.1976) of Downham Road, Stockport
  • Adam Haigh, 19 (26.06.1999) of Richmond Grove, Manchester
  • Jasmine Horsley Grassie, 77 (10.02.1942) of Kington, Powys
  • Tamsyn Cowden, 55 (02.03.1964) of Kington, Powys
  • Louise Treneman, 25 (20.02.1994) of Northcote Road, Bristol
  • Sadie Stanton, 28 (03.01.1991) of Higher Slade Road, Devon
  • Alan Dixon, 53 (09.05.1965) of Edeva Court, Cambridge
  • Ruth Jarman, 55 (05.05.1963) of Hartley Wintney, Hampshire
  • Hayley Pinto, 51 (13.03.1968) of Norwich Road, Marsham
  • Mary Ellen Light, 74 (08.09.1944) of Newman Crescent, Dartington
  • Stuart Frost, 39 (15.12.1979) of Lower Ebor Street, York
  • Sally Chapman, 56 (03.07.1962) of Lower Town, Devon
  • Ellis Rachel Bowdler, 26 (23.06.1992) of Frome, Somerset
  • Samuel Elmore, 26 (14.12.1992) of Hunbridge Lane, Hyde End
  • Barbara Cookson, 68 (27.11.1950) of Lawrence Grove, Liverpool
  • Rebecca West, 39 (30.03.1980) of Shipman, Somerset
  • William Cooke, 36 (20.01.1983) of Barton Hill, Bristol
  • Justin Lewis Preece, 49 (13.08.1969) of Treforest, Pontypridd
  • Tiana Jacout, 31 (20.09.1987) – address unknown
  • Malika Rassikh, 41 (12.01.1978) of Gipcy, France
  • Liam Norton, 34 (14.12.1984) of Bromells Road, Lambeth
  • Emma Ricketts, 24 (25.06.1994) – address unknown
  • Greg Frey, 22 (13.05.1996) – address unknown
  • Emily Cox, 33 (23.02.1986) of Eastville, Bristol
  • Kathleen Carlson, 27 (18.05.1991) of Forest Road, Waltham Forest
  • Spencer Upton, 27 (30.12.1991) of Bodmin, Cornwall
  • A man who refused to provide police with his date of birth and address

++ As of 16:15hrs, Parliament Square has now re-opened. Conditions currently remain at Waterloo Bridge only. Officers continue their efforts to re-open Waterloo Bridge as soon as possible.

++ Previous count of those charged was 42, the discrepancy in numbers is believed to be due to duplication.
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These people are just full of shit whiners. A bunch of latte sucking, unrecyclable cup using bastards who'd never actually give up their nice lives for any of the legit hovels they'd force people into.

There's a lot of genuinely exciting technology in the pipeline, or currently being built. There's Antaco's incredibly simple Biocoal technology (using slurry and human sewerage) to generate biocoal suitable for current generation power plants, cutting their carbon emissions by a staggering 90%.

There's other methods of torrefaction too, but aren't as "useful" in that it's using an otherwise mostly useless product.

Then on the far larger end of the scale are Thiel, Bezos and Gates all investing heavily into various Nuclear Fusion methods with some promising looking results from earlier tests.

Never mind our old friend and favourite weirdo, Elon Musk is busy trying to figure out how to capture Solar energy and store it better.

In recyclable cups, there's now a kind by frugal cup where the insides seperate cleanly in water allowing for it to be easily recycled.

Oh yeah, and McDonalds signed an enormous contract with the clever people at Transcend Packaging who made a paper straw which doesn't suck.

Fuck Extinction Rebellion for their fucking stupid attention seeking bullshit.
 
I remember reading about activists chaining themselves to redwoods and such as a young'un and thinking it was kinda heroic, but somewhere along the line I started seeing this shit for the dangerous ego-driven game it is. I think a lot of us here did. What caused the change for you, and was it gradual or sudden? For me, I lost my patience during Occupy Wall Street. I saw the camps & the scene and it just felt like they were larping at great expense to the city (and ultimately, the taxpayer).
 
ConfederateIrishman said:
Am I the only one getting the feeling the Ireland is about to rev up again?

Because if they do they’re abandoning yet another one of their colonist populations to the natives, and they lose the final legacy of their Empire. Such cuckery would be too much for even modern England to bear.
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I mean, I doubt it. With drone and FLIR technology being the way it is these days, any Provo wannabe waiting for an RUC patrol in a ditch is going to get his brains splattered before he can pull the trigger. It isn't 1995 anymore. I sympathize with Republicanism to a point, but a violent uprising is going to see them get their asses handed to them in today's age. A few RUC officers will be killed, they'll get their act together, and proceed to decimate the RIRA one shooter at a time -- and they don't have that many shooters in the first place. Any soldiers that fought in The Troubles will try to fight a war circa 1995 -- not 2019.

And it isn't quite that simple when it comes to NI returning to the Republic. There is still a sizeable loyalist population in NI. And to be frank, the Republic doesn't really want them, either.

At one point in time the Armalite and Ballot Box strategy was legitimate. It isn't now.
 
I think some details got mixed up in the news.

According to the police report the bullet was aimed at a grouping of local police officers who were taking fire from some IRA types.

This lady was behind the group a fair ways but not far enough I guess. Everyone is making it sound like the IRA was aiming to kill them some journalists when rather she was a victim of a lose shot that ricocheted off an armored police car and hit her.

I mean it sucks that she ate a bullet for no reason but that's a risk you take when you cover situations where folks are exchanged gunfire. Plus what would it gain the IRA to off some blue-hair SJW type?

Wrong place at the wrong time; a story as old as time.
 
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I mean, I doubt it. With drone and FLIR technology being the way it is these days, any Provo wannabe waiting for an RUC patrol in a ditch is going to get his brains splattered before he can pull the trigger. It isn't 1995 anymore. I sympathize with Republicanism to a point, but a violent uprising is going to see them get their asses handed to them in today's age. A few RUC officers will be killed, they'll get their act together, and proceed to decimate the RIRA one shooter at a time -- and they don't have that many shooters in the first place. Any soldiers that fought in The Troubles will try to fight a war circa 1995 -- not 2019.

And it isn't quite that simple when it comes to NI returning to the Republic. There is still a sizeable loyalist population in NI. And to be frank, the Republic doesn't really want them, either.

At one point in time the Armalite and Ballot Box strategy was legitimate. It isn't now.
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Agreed, the technological revolution combined with the fact that public bombings are now heavily associated with Islam means any attempt to kickstart the Troubles again will likely backfire.

Also people need to bear in mind that the NIRA has very lucrative inroads in the drug business, not only would they lose a prominent line of revenue as this would be the first to be targeted by the authorities but the individuals running these large drug franchises would be targeted as a result of association with a renewed terrorist group. Irish criminal groups are also required to work very closely with groups from the UK in Europe with the expansion of more groups from eastern Europe.
 
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