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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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FT reporting that Labour is about to scrap their commitment to ending tuition fees.

potato fan said:
Jesus Christ, UK was THIS FUCKING CLOSE to making one, ONE! thing right, and in the end fucked up nonetheless. Weird how they never seem to fail in doing the wrong things, like prosecuting people for mean tweets or putting someone who stopped a terrorist attack on the "possible terrorist" watchlist, somehow in such cases no all-powerful "human rights" political body intervenes
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One thing right? How is sending refugees to Rwanda only to get more back in return who are needing consistent medical treatment and social services a good thing?

You think those Clowns were ever going to do something right that isn't them pretending to do something good in the eyes of voters while the murdoch tabloid media hides the mess from their reporting?
 
CWCissey said:
Yep. Students are expected to do dumb shit, I believe the author was black too.
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Per the news articles yes. Per the picture accompanying it too.

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So the chain of logic now presumably goes;
Black person saying that slur = okay
Black person writing it = still okay
Black person writing it on a white canvas - okay as long as that canvas is not a human.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Per the news articles yes. Per the picture accompanying it too.

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So the chain of logic now presumably goes;
Black person saying that slur = okay
Black person writing it = still okay
Black person writing it on a white canvas - okay as long as that canvas is not a human.
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That man’s stomach is disgustingly hairy.
 
UK troops filmed having orgy at barracks, barred from NATO deployment

Hundreds of British paratroopers were banned from a NATO deployment after videos surfaced of an orgy with a civilian woman in the barracks that had some soldiers watching on, according to reports.

Eight paratroopers serving in the UK’s 16 Air Assault Brigade were under police investigation over a video of them having sex with a civilian woman who had been snuck into the Merville barracks in Colchester, it was revealed earlier this month.

The woman had been snuck into the barracks as many as 31 times over the past five months, according to The Times of London.

The UK’s new head of the Army, Gen. Sir Patrick Sanders, told his generals and commanding officers in a letter he would not “risk the mission or the reputation of the British army” by sending the troops abroad, The Times reported.

Although military police ultimately determined that no crime was committed, Sanders reportedly said in the letter that the incident could have appeared to “denigrate women” and was against the army’s values.

“My message to the army is clear – our license to operate is founded on trust and confidence and we must hold ourselves to the highest standards,” Sanders wrote. He added that “such behavior is unacceptable, corrosive and detrimental to the army’s reputation,” according to The Times.

“I am not prepared to risk the Nato mission or the reputation of the British army by deploying 3 Para at this time.”


The news of the orgy follows a series of incidents during an exercise in North Macedonia in May, when several soldiers were accused “unprofessional behavior” during the drill.
 
Inquisitor_BadAss said:
Eight under investigation but hundreds banned. That must have been one hell of a gang bang.
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Near as I can tell it's 8 in that gang bang plus however many watching on because there's nothing good on tv whatever streaming service they have. However she's been there 31 times meaning it was likely not a one off. So basically the entire barracks know who she is and why she's there.
 
Morethanabitfoolish said:
Near as I can tell it's 8 in that gang bang plus however many watching on because there's nothing good on tv whatever streaming service they have. However she's been there 31 times meaning it was likely not a one off. So basically the entire barracks know who she is and why she's there.
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31 times. As well-used as a dishrag and just as clean, probably.
 
Roast Chicken said:
31 times. As well-used as a dishrag and just as clean, probably.
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Eh, while accurate bear in mind that the troops cycled through her too. Think any of them are overly sanitary afterwards?
As CWCisssy pointed out this is hardly new for the British Army.
 
Traincake said:
Well, you know what Churchill said about the Royal Navy's traditions: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash.
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True, but they got rid of the lash in the late 19th century and they haven't spliced the mainbrace since the 80s, iirc. So that only leaves the quest for the golden rivet.
 
‘Skinny, bendy and blonde’: women of colour challenge racism in UK yoga / https://archive.ph/rOLS6

Despite its roots in India, the sector is not diverse, and women report ‘wall of silence’ about studios’ lack of inclusiveness

When Sue Forde returned to practising yoga in a studio earlier this year, for the first time since the pandemic, it was with a sense of trepidation. Because it meant she was, once again, usually the only black woman in the room.

“I’ve had my body pointed to as ‘an African body’,” said Forde, from Hackney, east London. “Recently, in a class, this discussion sprang up about whether black women have a bigger tendency to a pelvic tilt. You think: ‘Oh, please don’t bring this into the yoga room.’”


Forde is one of a growing number of black and minority ethnic yoga teachers and practitioners who are challenging racism in British yoga organisations. Many said they have experienced inappropriate touching of, and comments about, their bodies and hair in classes, as well as crass racial stereotypes, such as Indians being ‘naturally bendy’, and ignorance of yoga’s sacred texts, including the Bhagavad Gita.

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Last autumn, Forde was among several members of the renowned Iyengar Yoga London in Maida Vale who raised concerns about racism at the centre. A meeting in September to discuss equality and diversity at the institute heard about “women of colour who had visited IYMV once or twice and not returned as they felt unwelcome and uncomfortable”. Forde, who has not since returned to the studio, also told the group that it was “not reflecting the diversity that is on the streets around it”.

Despite its roots in India, the sector, which, along with pilates, is worth more than £900m, is not diverse. A report by the British Medical Journal in 2020 found that 87% of UK practitioners were women and 91% were white.

In a book published this week, yoga teacher trainer Stacie Graham argues that in Europe and North America, yoga’s traditions have been misappropriated and commodified as fitness.

In Yoga As Resistance, which Graham wrote as a guide to making yoga more inclusive, she noted that social media representations of the practice are dominated by images of white women who are “very skinny, bendy and blonde”.

Graham, who has led anti-racism workshops for yoga studios including Triyoga, said whenever she asked studio managers why their membership did not reflect the ethnic diversity of the local area, their answers were often based on inaccurate racial stereotypes “about what ‘those people’ do”.

Together with three other yoga teachers of colour, Graham has set up Radical Darshan, an anti-racist teacher training course in London. It covers the harmful impact of British colonialism on India and how that led to modern western-style yoga, focused on exercise rather than spirituality.

One of the other course leaders, Kallie Schut, who also runs decolonised yoga group Rebel Yoga Tribe, said many UK yoga organisations were exploiting India’s cultural heritage while failing to appoint south Asian teachers.

She recalled a class where a white teacher “who’d just come back from an ashram in India was wearing Indian clothes, and all the accoutrements, in a class full of white people”.

“It felt like it was almost a parody of being south Asian,” said Schut, from south-east London. She added that such experiences in white-led yoga spaces were traumatising for people of colour, and she was no longer willing to practise in them.

I was getting nowhere with studio owners after challenging them for the last two years
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Sophia Ansari
Amanda Evans from Brighton said she had quit teaching yoga in commercial studios because some white students had walked out of classes when they saw a black or brown teacher. “It happened to me a couple of times and with south Asian teachers I know as well,” she said.
Other yoga teachers of colour said they had stopped providing anti-racism work for white-led yoga organisations in recent years because they had not carried out meaningful reform.
Sophia Ansari, a Cardiff-based yoga teacher and therapist, who has run workshops on decolonising the yoga curriculum for trustees of the British Wheel of Yoga, said she had distanced herself from the industry because “they’re doing a disservice to yoga”.
“I felt like I was getting nowhere with studio owners after challenging them for the last two years,” said Ansari. “There is a wall of silence, always. I had to withdraw from it because it’s exhausting.”
Dorothy Hosein, chief executive of British Wheel of Yoga, said the training body had recently set up an equality, diversity and inclusion working group to discuss how to change the culture of the organisation.
Hosein, who is white, said the organisation’s new board, which is elected annually, was all white. She added: “We haven’t got diversity in our demographics, and there’s a lot of work to do.”

Alan Reynolds, manager of Iyengar Yoga London, said he accepted that people of colour were underrepresented in classes. He added that the institute had several teachers of colour and had recently formed a diversity advisory group to address how it could become more inclusive.

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