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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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#VEGANsausageroll thanks Greggs

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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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The hype got me like #Greggs #Veganuary

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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.

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.

 

[Manah]

Honestly, this is pretty hilarious and anyone who tries to argue otherwise is pretty obviously just doing so because they don't want to be caught out saying anything bad about Trump.

It still impresses me how symmetrical politics are sometimes.

 

[HeyYou]

while Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has compared Mr Trump to the ”fascists of the 20th century”.

He and most of the other non-white people currently in London weren't even living in London during that shit, shut the fuck up.

 

[CWCissey]

Police dog Finn's law comes into force

The German Shepherd's handler led a campaign for tougher legislation to protect service animals.

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A new law named after a police dog which recently appeared on Britain's Got Talent has come into effect.

German shepherd Finn was stabbed and seriously hurt as he protected PC Dave Wardell from an attacker in 2016.

Nicknamed "Finn's Law", the new legislation makes it harder for those who harm service animals to claim they were acting in self-defence.

PC Wardell, who has led calls for the change in the law, said the pair's journey had been "incredible".

The father-of-three and Finn reached the final of ITV's primetime variety show with a magic act that moved the judges to tears.

"This law is the only reason I put myself on stage in front of nine million people," said PC Wardell, who is still a serving officer.

He began campaigning for the new Animal Welfare (Service Animals) Act after Finn - now retired - saved his life when a knife-wielding robbery suspect attacked them with in Stevenage in 2016.

Finn was stabbed in the chest and head and was not expected to survive. PC Wardell was stabbed in the hand.

Image copyrightPAImage captionPolice dog Finn received the PDSA Gold Medal in March for police service
A 16-year-old boy from London was found guilty of causing PC Wardell actual bodily harm.

Under the previous law, the attack on Finn could only be treated as criminal damage.

PC Wardell said this has made it difficult for the judge to "put a value on property" when deciding on a sentence.

"Service animals until now have fallen through legal loopholes," he said.

'An amazing character'
The new law was an attempt to "take the model of Australia and Canada" and "right that wrong", he said.

PC Wardell said he would now push for increased sentences on all animal welfare cases, and a consultation is currently under way to amend the Animal Welfare Act in Scotland.

Image copyrightBCH POLICE DOGSImage captionGerman shepherd Finn was stabbed in the head and chest after pursuing a suspect in 2016
"Finn is an incredible dog and an amazing character," he said.

"He could be in a primary school for book readings one minute - and breaking up a pub fight the next.

"I'm immensely proud of him."

Not the rope, but it'll do.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Someone being stabbed in London? Part of living in a modern city.
Stab a doggo? You're going to jail in chains!

In all seriousness, glad the dog survived, and fuck the guy who did it. Hope he gets raped in jail.

 

[NoticesPatterns]

Perpetrator was a 16-year-old from Lewisham. Lewisham has one of the highest populations of niggers in the UK. Got six months in a youth detention center, served three.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

Know what would ensure that no service doggo ever gets kicked, punched, stabbed, shot or hit in the brain with an axe ever again?

Don't allow cops to live their Jim Belushi dreams of having a dog as a partner.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Article doesn't mention whether he was a "Good boy" or "SUCH A GOOD BOYYYYY" so I'm torn, here.

Nicknamed "Finn's Law", the new legislation makes it harder for those who harm service animals to claim they were acting in self-defence

That seems... bad...

 

[Arctic Fox]

Article doesn't mention whether he was a "Good boy" or "SUCH A GOOD BOYYYYY" so I'm torn, here.

He took a knife to the face for his owner. He's the BEST good boy

 

[Stoneheart]

Not the rope, but it'll do.

Its a stupid law... the chances that a well trained German shepherd attacks on its own is lower than the chance that a gun just goes off on itself.

 

[SmileyTimeDayCare]

Article doesn't mention whether he was a "Good boy" or "SUCH A GOOD BOYYYYY" so I'm torn, here.



That seems... bad...

Are you trying to say that this will somehow be abused to allow officers to use excessive force through their slaves police dogs?

I can't imagine that happening...again.




I mean that was a long time...ago.

Ya know what maybe just stop using dogs outside of drug searches...

 

[Shiversblood]

It was already illegal to stab dogs in the USA. Animal cruelty law.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

Good to see REEEEE COPS has spread as far as our fair farms.

 

[Coldgrip]

Ya know what maybe just stop using dogs outside of drug searches...

They should stop using them for that as well considering the failure rate and the false positives they have.

 

[Coach Kreeton Of All That]

Service animals are truly wholesome beings. They're highly trained and show nothing but goodness and attention to their job and just need to be cared for. That article has so many feels.

Kebabags.

Also the bus is for getting stabbed.

I'd rather walk forty blocks that get on the bus tbh. I can remember with great detail witnessing a stabbing on a NY Bus.

It's always kebabs. No surprise there when the once proud British Union Jack was Chad to the Virgins India and China during the age of colonization.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Either Kebab, Chav, or they up and pulled a Jussie. I think that's my suspects and in order of likeliness, the only reason I'm really entertaining the 3rd one is that it's all too stereotypical sounding.

Like all the events separately seem plenty probable it's just how many things were a little too on the nose that kinda got my noggin a choggin.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

I think I just became a dog person now.
I love the bond between man and dog, coexisting and evolving together.

Cats never like me. T3T

 

[Clop]

I don't think extra laws are going to make the perpetrators any less stupid when they stab at you and your doggo.

I think I just became a dog person now.
I love the bond between man and dog, coexisting and evolving together.

Cats never like me. T3T

Simple rule of thumb for both: Don't look them in the eye, ignore them completely. Dogs and cats are both territorial and once you just prove to be a big, strong lump that isn't going to even acknowledge them as an issue, they'll acknowledge your status as trustworthy. Difference is dogs see you as their trusty leader, cats see you as their trusty servant.

 

[pwnest injun]

It's actually a really good sign that two women being attacked by hooligans in the middle of the night is so rare that it makes international news.

Well, it's a really good sign for the 1st world.

 

[Ali della Fenice]

Bloody awful. Poor women. Pissed up scumbags who’ve watched too much of the type of porn where lesbians change their minds after a bit of corrective rape.

You watch some weird porn, I tell you.

 

[Fareal]

#Repealthepornlaws

This stupid law could have only really come from the dead hamster running May's puritanical brain. It does not surprise me one whit that you can circumvent another useless, badly thought out piece of trash legislation that shouldn't have reached the books in the first place.

In all honestly "Think of the children" is the rallying cry of the petty fucking despot.

What were they going to do with all this info anyway? Have "data breeches" in which political opponents wanking preferences were revealed to much embarrassment? That wouldn't hilariously fucking backfire considering the endless sex scandals MPs tend to be fucking involved in, would it?

Useless laws from a useless woke bunch of cunts pretending they're even vaguely conservative.

They are going to link it to everything else the government knows about you and to your police (note: not criminal, but police record, which you are not entitled to see) record.

Have a good long think about that.