New five pound note: Not suitable for vegetarians

[LooseChange]

New five pound note: Not suitable for vegetarians
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38144598

[trout]

New five pound note: Not suitable for vegetarians
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38144598

What a load of hogwash, I bet they don't mind the good leather boots they are wearing during the Brit winter or the woolen sox and jumpers that keep the silly bugger warm either.
Stupid Sods :dash1:

[kchan1111]

They need to watch this

https://youtu.be/BRETz2F-heQ

[translateltd]

New five pound note: Not suitable for vegetarians
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38144598

What a load of hogwash, I bet they don't mind the good leather boots they are wearing during the Brit winter or the woolen sox and jumpers that keep the silly bugger warm either.
Stupid Sods :dash1:

Best response to this I've seen so far!

On another non-numismatic forum I have Canadian colleagues worrying about how meaty *their* notes are ...

[trout]

If these "Vegans" are worried about animal products they must include products that have displaced animals in their production and products that cause pollution that kills animals.
Just about every product we eat or use has some affect on the animal kingdom :ok:
I always thought that Vegans were people that couldn't afford Meat and by not eating it they made their poverty "Fashionable" :angel:

I have to go now to chop up some nice Beef sirloin to prepare a lovely Beef stroganoff for Dinner

[Fulvio]

Looks like the fundamentalist plant-murderers got their way:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/11/30/bank-england-yields-vegan-pressure-plastic-fivers/

Should make the current batch more collectible, yeah? :angel:

[translateltd]

And there's more:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-38184599

[Fulvio]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2311208/tallow-animal-fat-new-polymer-5-note/
Oh, and this is the chemist's perspective:

"The answer from the B of E is not an answer at all. The animal derivative is more than likely to be a stearate from fat. Long chain fatty acids and their derivatives act as lubricants in the process of making film and make the product easily handleable. The actual substance is likely to be calcium or magnesium stearate at a level of 0.01% to 0.05%."

[robbiegal]

disgusting
it's no wonder the Britts got mad cows disease!!

[Fulvio]

disgusting
it's no wonder the Britts got mad cows disease!!

What's disgusting?
"It's stupid. It's absolutely stupid," :diablo:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/02/5-animal-fat-bank-note-british-vegetarians-being-stupid-says-inventor

[kchan1111]

"It's stupid. It's absolutely stupid," :diablo:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/02/5-animal-fat-bank-note-british-vegetarians-being-stupid-says-inventor

It's in toothpaste even. Vegetarians have been scrubbing pig inside their mouths since forever.

[Fulvio]

It's in toothpaste even. Vegetarians have been scrubbing pig inside their mouths since forever.

Tell me about it. I've been fighting these vegans all day on my FB post.

They don't seem to grasp just how pervasive animal products are, nor the boundary between health choices and politics. It would be quite funny except for how crap things are when they get their way. :dodgy:

[trout]

Why is it whenever I think of Vegans Images of "the Young Ones" flash through my brain :angel:

[Fulvio]

LOL! Because they're like that in real life, of course!

PS: http://www.delarue.com/media-centre/latest-news/2016/2016-06-02