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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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Climate activists threaten 'new and inventive' protests if ministers …

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Extinction Rebellion activists and dozens of other environmental groups have vowed to "step up campaigns in new and inventive ways" unless the government agrees to enter talks on two new demands.
During a joint news conference today, Extinction Rebellion, Global Justice Now, Don't Pay UK and PCS Union issued two "ultimatums".


They reiterated a so far unsuccessful request to ministers to end all licences, funding and approval for new fossil fuel projects, and they asked for the creation of new "emergency citizens assemblies" to give people a say in ways to tackle the climate crisis.
The campaigners said they are bringing together over 200 organisations, including Greenpeace, as well as further community groups for a mass gathering in London this weekend.
"We must unite to survive," said Marijin van der Geer from Extinction Rebellion ahead of the event, which they are calling The Big One.


The four days of protest, from Friday to Monday, "are not intended for public disruption", they said.
But as 28,000 people had signed up online so far, they said, travel could be disrupted, and acknowledged the capital would be busy with the London Marathon taking place on Sunday.

If the government does not agree to start talks on their two demands by 5pm Monday 24th April, they said they would have "no choice" but to call on all those attending over the weekend to step up their protests.
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Guys, they are super cereal right now.
 
Clem Fandango said:
I'm so sick of these bellends. After the Grand National and now this, it's increasingly clear that the news media are essentially the publicity officers for these clowns.

When a streaker runs out on the pitch they cut away to different camera angles and don't show it. This discourages future streakers because they know they won't get the attention they seek.

For all these stories, sky news, the BBC et al do the exact opposite.

Fuck Journoscum.
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Bright side most of them are airing it unedited so I get to hear "pricks" yelled time and time again. It's a treat to hear on Radio 4 at 6 in the morning.
 
celebrityskin said:
In some urban areas of England, Labour have basically became a Muslim-interests party with literal crypto-Islamists in their ranks. That's why so many Hindus and Sikhs have jumped ship

Watch an 'Islamic party' come about in the next decade or so. It already happened in the Netherlands and Sweden.
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There already is (kind of), see Aspire, which is effectively a pro-Bengali front in Tower Hamlets (and additionally campaigns for votes from the other Muslims within the borough).
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fat ass said:
There already is (kind of), see Aspire, which is effectively a pro-Bengali front in Tower Hamlets (and additionally campaigns for votes from the other Muslims within the borough).
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They can fuck off back to the middle east if things are so great under islam. After they had a tantrum about some kid scuffing a copy of the quran a few weeks ago we should have deported the ones making threats instead of letting them force a white mother to cover her head and beg for forgiveness.

My only consolation is that this is primarily a city thing.
 
I really, really don't like Muslims. I've yet to meet a Muslim man that doesn't behave like a mentally-retarded, emotionally-unstable teenager.

I do kinda worry that with all the trans bullshit floating around, people have taken their eyes off the ball with this. Islam seems to infect and destroy every country it comes into contact with.
 
Muslim pupils tell Hindu classmates to convert to Islam to avoid bullying

Muslim pupils are telling their Hindu classmates to change their religion to avoid bullying and make their lives easier, a think tank has found.
The study by the Henry Jackson Society found that Hindu pupils are being “held responsible” for the actions of India and facing xenophobic slurs from white pupils.
It comes after disorder broke out in Leicester between the Hindu and Muslim communities, which the report warned the same tensions are fuelling discrimination in schools.
Half of Hindu parents said their children had suffered hatred in schools with incidents including a pupil having beef thrown at her by classmates, the report found.
Hinduism is the third most common religion in the UK, with around one million people identifying as Hindu.

Links to Leicester unrest​

The document, authored by Charlotte Littlewood, a research fellow and former Prevent counter-extremism co-ordinator, spoke to 988 Hindu parents and surveyed more than 1,000 schools around the country.
Police in Leicester made 55 arrests last September after weeks of disorder which included vandalism of property, assaults, stabbings and attacks on places of worship. The think tank previously found that the tensions were linked to conflict between young people from Muslim and Hindu communities and false narratives claiming there was Hindu extremism in Leicester.

The report found that Hindus faced discrimination from pupils from varying backgrounds but there were clear similarities between incidents in the classroom and the disorder in the Midlands.
“Some of the discrimination exhibited in the classroom showed similarities to the manifestations of hate witnessed during the unrest in Leicester between Hindus and Muslims,” it noted.

“There were numerous instances of derogatory references made towards Hindus, such as mocking their vegetarianism and belittling their deities, which were also made by Islamist extremists rallying against the Hindu community in Leicester.”
The reports said Hindu pupils were being “held responsible for politics and social issues in India reminiscent of the treatment of Jews with regard to Israel and of Muslims in the post-9/11 climate”.

'We will eat you up'​

It found that Muslim pupils called for Hindus to convert or face “threats of hell for disbelievers” using terms such as “kaffir”.
In one example a child “was harassed and told that if they convert to Islam, their life will become so much easier” and in another told: “You aren’t going to survive very long... If you want to go to paradise, you’ll have to come to Islam... Hindus are the herbivores at the bottom of the food chain, we will eat you up.”
Another parent said children were told to watch videos of an Islamic preacher and to “convert because Hinduism makes no sense”.
Researchers also found evidence of xenophobia including from Christian pupils, with one child told: “Jesus will send your Gods to hell.”

'Religious education fostering discrimination'​

The report found that religious education was “fostering discrimination” against Hindus with inappropriate references to the Indian caste system and misconceptions over the worship of deities which students felt made “a mockery of them”.
While other religions were given days off for celebrations, Hindu pupils were often not given a holiday for Diwali.
The study noted that anti-Hindu hate was poorly reported, with only one per cent of schools recording incidents while only 15 per cent of parents surveyed believed schools adequately address anti-Hindu related incidents.
Ben Everitt MP, said the findings were “damning” and called for urgent improvements to religious education.
“The findings in this report are damning and shed light on the varying themes and forms which anti-Hindu discrimination materialises in the classroom,” he said.
He said that as well as discrimination taking the form of anti-Hindu slurs there was “a problematic approach to teaching Hinduism which may be feeding into prejudice, and whether incidents of bullying and discrimination are being adequately dealt with by each individual school”.
He added: “If we want to make real, sustained, long-term progress in reducing discrimination towards those of minority faiths in our schools, then we need to make sure that young people are receiving the best possible education about the many faiths which are woven into the fabric of our diverse United Kingdom.”
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The Telegraph is the only British newspaper reporting on this story, most of the other articles are from newspapers in India. Half of all Hindu children are being targeted and bullied by Muslim children, specifically because of religion.

If half of all Muslim children were being bullied because of religious reasons, I imagine this would get a good deal more media attention in the UK.
 
FudgeFish said:
The Telegraph is the only British newspaper reporting on this story, most of the other articles are from newspapers in India. Half of all Hindu children are being targeted and bullied by Muslim children, specifically because of religion.

If half of all Muslim children were being bullied because of religious reasons, I imagine this would get a good deal more media attention in the UK.
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WION already covers it
 
FudgeFish said:
If half of all Muslim children were being bullied because of religious reasons, I imagine this would get a good deal more media attention in the UK.
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It's increasingly perturbing that the left these days has no interest in any minorities except the absolute bottom of the barrel worst, like Muslims or BLM rioters or pantifa. Or those end oil fuckfaces.
 
Do you think that the PM will say anything or will he continue to be as buck broken as ever?
 
I'm sure there was a guy that tried to warn us about Indian inter-ethnic strife manifesting on the streets of Britain....
he inexplicably appears in just about every other BBC drama series for some reason...
 
AnOminous said:
It's increasingly perturbing that the left these days has no interest in any minorities except the absolute bottom of the barrel worst, like Muslims or BLM rioters or pantifa. Or those end oil fuckfaces.
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I also went down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding prison demographics in the UK as a result of this - the full government report from 2022 can be found in a PDF document here: UK Prison Population Statistics


The interesting bit, which relates to this, is regarding the religion of currently incarcerated prisoners;

The percentage of prisoners who identify as Christian is 45%, whilst (as of last year) being roughly 65% of the general population.

The percentage of prisoners who identify as Hindu is 0%. Hindus make up 2% of the general population.

The percentage of prisoners who identify as Muslim is 17%. This is despite the fact that Muslims only make up 4% of the general population.


I have no idea why any country would willingly allow Muslim immigrants to take up residence. They're demonstrably a net-negative to any society they touch.
 
Coolio55 said:
Do you think that the PM will say anything or will he continue to be as buck broken as ever?
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Really depends if he has more muslim indians or hindu indians that support him. The former he will keep quiet, the latter he might say something just to keep the hindu's on side.
 
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Just Stop Oil protesters jailed for Dartford Crossing protest

Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker scaled bridge over River Thames, forcing police to stop traffic
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Two Just Stop Oil protesters who scaled a bridge on the Dartford Crossing, forcing police to close it to traffic, have been sentenced to more than two and a half years each for causing a public nuisance.

Morgan Trowland, 40, and Marcus Decker, 34, used ropes and other climbing equipment to scale the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, which links the M25 between Essex and Kent across the River Thames, in October last year. The police closed the bridge to traffic, causing gridlock.

Trowland was sentenced to three years in prison, while Decker received two years and seven months. Spokespeople from the activist group said these were the longest sentences for peaceful climate protest in British history.
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:story: Get fucked eco wankers.

Also Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project has apparently reached out and offered to help them appeal. Given how well his legal shit usually goes, I look forward to them somehow getting the death penalty lel
 
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