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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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Coolio55 said:
I like how all the news outlets don't even bother to put the EU's lies in quotes because they know nobody will ever be allowed to question them.
Breaching international law my arse. JoePaedo even got in the action Obama style.

@Inquisitor_BadAss pretend I put a drink emoji on your post.
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I gave him a drink sticker on your behalf, friendo.
 
CaesarCzech said:
Too Bad TERFS and Feminists, we are gonna let trannies run amok for few years then use backslash to have move towards conservative society. We arent gonna get you situation in which you are priviledged and we just remove trannies. Fuck youl, Revenge of the Males incoming.
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This is one of the dumbest fucking things I've ever read on this site and the best part is, is that you're 100% serious about it.
 

West Yorkshire Police charge 32 men with almost 200 sexual exploitation offences against eight girls​

Police have charged 32 men with almost 200 sexual exploitation offences against eight teenage girls.
The men, mainly from the Kirklees area of West Yorkshire, were charged following an extensive investigation into child sexual exploitation.

West Yorkshire Police said Operation Tourway looked at offences spanning 1999 to 2012.
The victims were aged 13 to 16 at the time of the alleged offences, which total 196, and include rape, supplying drugs and trafficking.
The force said some of the girls were also subjected to offences when they were young adults.

Locations where the alleged offending took place include parts of Kirklees, Bradford and Wakefield.
The men are due to appear at Kirklees Magistrates' Court on 11 and 14 December.
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CWCissey said:
London councillor accidentally sets fire to himself during Zoom call.

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London councillor accidentally causes fire during virtual meeting

Tom Sleigh was trying to light a candle when his notepad went up in flames during an online meeting.
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Dude can't light a candle without screwing it up, and he's somehow survived long enough to become a councillor? He should've listened to Charley.


I wouldn't be surprised to hear he was trying to light a cigarette outside of Grenfell and accidentally set fire to the entire building, causing the entire disaster.
 
Bender said:
Dude can't light a candle without screwing it up, and he's somehow survived long enough to become a councillor? He should've listened to Charley.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9HB0HcINjWs
I wouldn't be surprised to hear he was trying to light a cigarette outside of Grenfell and accidentally set fire to the entire building, causing the entire disaster.
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Councilors, especially two plus term councilors are essentially 99% retarded. Anyone with intelligence or just better things to be doing don't run and the few who slip through and find some hidden competency migrate to national politics or the private sector
 
CWCissey said:
The third Sausage Roll themed Christmas Number 1.


Shame there's no option for a 2009 RATM style upset for these as the money is legit going to a good cause.
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Holy shit, he did it again? I'm really happy for him, he seems to be a genuinely nice guy and, as you said, all of the proceeds are going to charity.

Also look how emotional he got last year when he found out he got a second Christmas #1:

He's like a two-metre tall puppy and I just wanna give him a hug, lmao.

ETA: I forgot so say:
YES, MATE!

Also this line from his Wikipedia article gave me a bit of a chuckle:

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Western Isles council rejects official sex ed in favour of Catholic teaching​

The Western Isles has been hit by a fresh row over the influence of churches on public policy after councillors voted to endorse a Catholic manual on teaching sex education and relationships in schools.

A large majority of councillors on Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (CnES) backed a motion “commending” Roman Catholic teaching materials, which uphold an orthodox Catholic stance against sexual intercourse outside heterosexual marriage.

The vote came after Church of Scotland ministers on Lewis said parents and teachers were unhappy about Scottish government-backed material on relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP), teaching children about the human body, different gender identities and sexual relationships, pornography and safe sex.

Rev Hugh Stewart, a minister in Lewis presbytery, which lobbied councillors to reject the official materials, said it suggested children as young as three were taught about human genitalia, while the Catholic material said 10 was the earliest age for that.
Due to be translated into Gaelic, the official materials would also put children from Christian homes under pressure to “embrace” views about gender and relationships which conflicted with their morals, and were not appropriate to their age and stage of development, he said.
“It is one thing for a child or young person to be educated and objectively informed, it is another to require them to ‘embrace’, which infers a tacit support for, a view that contradicts their own morality or faith position,” he said.

Councillors angry about the vote denounced the decision as “dark and dangerous”, but council officials insisted the motion did nothing to change policy since it still allowed teachers to use a variety of guides based on their judgment and local policy.
Cllr Angus McCormack, CnES’s education convenor and a former maths and guidance teacher at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway, the Western Isles’ largest secondary school, said: “All these councillors are doing are expressing an opinion which is driven by their own personal beliefs.”

Cllr Norman Macdonald, who attacked the vote as “lunacy”, said current policy already required teachers to check with their headteacher and parent council if they wanted to use controversial materials, and allowed parents to remove children from class if they disapproved.
LGBTQ campaigners in the Western Isles fear the vote will nonetheless put schools under heavy pressure to shelve or delay more progressive, inclusive lessons about gender and relationships, and embolden people critical of official teaching material to complain.
Once dominated by conservative and highly orthodox Presbyterian churches, including the Free Church of Scotland, the Western Isles still observes sabbatarianism, which forbids work and play on Sundays. The current council is all-male.

Swimming pools and sports facilities, including golf courses, are closed on Sundays, but gay rights activism has become more visible. The first pride march in the Hebrides was held in 2018 in Stornoway, the largest town on the islands, where the local arts centre An LLantair, staged a LGBT history month in 2017.

One Hebrides Pride activist, who has three children at school, told the Guardian: “I’m now facing the prospect of attempting to provide this education for my children myself at home. I’d much rather my kids be taught the Scottish government-approved RSHP curriculum at school, by a trained and qualified teacher.

“My anxiety over the RSHP decision is not just about how my children will be taught right now, it’s also a long-term concern about how they’ll be taught throughout their school years, both in primary and in secondary.”
McCormack said he expected nothing would change: “There was a time when [public life] was very largely dominated by the church, but that’s no longer the case. I think that teachers will bring a realistic curriculum to their children and make sure that they’ve all the information that the need to live in our present-day world.”
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