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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.

 

[Dr J]

Something something Burnham something something deck chairs something something Titanic

 

[teriyakiburns]

See you at the next election, cunts!

Just don't pull a MiW, alright?

Here's a question, lads.
In your area, have you noticed any sort of uptick in England flags around that weren't already up for the World Cup? (As in, flags put up for Raise the Colours that never went down)
Because outside of the local pub, my area hasn't got any additional flags. I'm hoping this is the start to the end of the captive fascination our country has to niggerteam playing the semen slurping sport that is modern football.

Like I said before, I've seen union flags popping up. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I don't get how it couldn't make anyones day. The party that ruled over our country for 14 years and turned it into Niggerhell alongside the current pack of cunts didn't even get half of what we got. There is no going back after this level of humiliation, the political landscape in this country is forever changed and it's now just a matter of time before the rest comes crashing down as well. We fucking raped them, and we're eventually going to rape Labour and then Reform as well when they inevitably fuck everything up after the next general election when the Tory mask slips. It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when at this point. No amount of socialmedia control, censorship, and covering up of child rape is ever going to reverse this. They're scared, and they know that they're on borrowed time, it's why they're so desperate to tighten the leash while they're still holding it. It's a cowardly last ditch effort to cling to power that won't work.

People who support what Restore stands for need to be more optimistic and unified instead of bitch slapping at each other and crying over what is a fucking amazing result for our tiny party that has gained this much traction despite the establishment actively trying to ignore our existence. Don't let demoralising faggots get you down, bros. I'm celebrating our 7% over a few pints with the lads in the pub tonight and so should you lot.

See you at the next election, cunts!

Whenever I want to doompill, I think about the facts that the founders of the USSR, started out as dudes arguing in a pub in London. If they can manage it for such a retarded idea; we can manage it for a better one.

 

[Smyrna]

Metaphor has perhaps become reality as there has been a train crash in Bedford.

 

[AssignedEva]

Metaphor has perhaps become reality as there has been a train crash in Bedford.

That's definitely going to have caused quite a few injuries.

I'm not sure how with modern signalling systems a train can rear-end another train like this, but look forward to the inevitable train strikes when the union starts insisting it must be a train driver wellbeing issue.

 

[The best and greatest]

Returning briefly as a Mod here reached out to me and asked if I had come back as a new account.

So usually I'm having to teach people about paragraph breaks but in this case you get the advanced lesson of adding headers/subheaders which break up your writing into bitesize pieces that are both easier to digest individually and to consider with regards to the whole body of your work.

It also gives you a way to organize your train of thought so that it doesn't meander or lose focus by delving off to an aside.

Consider giving it a try, more people would probably read All That Shit by you if it was organized better.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zRIH31ge9Mw
nowhere is safe, comments are already turned off. Hopefully when speaking about drilling oil up north it'll include subsaharans and power tools.

What the fuck is this?

Nigger needs the Sims 2 treatment ASAP because whatever language she's speaking sounds less intelligent than Simlish.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Some environmentalist lawyer is getting fucked by the Environment Agency for uh... cleaning up a river? (X)
The EA threatened him and some other volunteers for restoring sections of a 'lost' river (X)

Good news! After decades of ignoring rampant environmental crime on the Roding, @EnvAgency
has finally decided to act.

Bad news! It’s not against Thames Water for illegally dumping billions of litres of sewage in the Roding, or the waste criminals who have dumped thousands of tonnes of rubbish on its banks, but against myself & a small volunteer charity for… restoring a river without a permit!

Within a week of the magnificent work of River Roding Trust volunteers completing the arduous work of restoring 250 metres of the Aldersbrook this winter, EA investigators had been down to the site and rattled off a letter threatening us with prosecution for doing the work without a permit. This is despite the fact that the Trust have repeatedly asked the EA to do this vital work on the Aldersbrook themselves & they have refused. It is also despite the fact that they have not investigated the huge illegal sewage outlet on the Cranbrook a few hundred metres away, which illegally discharges 750,000,000 litres of raw sewage straight into the River Roding every year.

 

[A-Logato]

Some environmentalist lawyer is getting fucked by the Environment Agency for uh... cleaning up a river? (X)
The EA threatened him and some other volunteers for restoring sections of a 'lost' river (X)

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I'd like to find a jury that would convi-oh wait...

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Some environmentalist lawyer is getting fucked by the Environment Agency for uh... cleaning up a river? (X)
The EA threatened him and some other volunteers for restoring sections of a 'lost' river (X)

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AHAHAHAHA HE DIDN'T HAVE HIS RIVER CLEANING LOICENSE!! WHAT A FANNY!!!

 

[Otterly]

Some environmentalist lawyer is getting fucked by the Environment Agency for uh... cleaning up a river? (X)
The EA threatened him and some other volunteers for restoring sections of a 'lost' river (X)

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When I’m empress, the C suites of the water companies will be chained under their worst discharging outflows and forced to bathe and drink it. That should concentrate some minds.
7% is amazing for restore - they have only been in the public eye a few months, and they’ve been deplatformed and actively ignored, or outright slandered by the media the whole time.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Friendly reminder that the energy cap rises in TWO WEEKS and that drumpf just fucked up the Iran deal again, so get your butts on Uswitch and find a reasonably priced fixed rate tariff now! The differences in price between suppliers will shock you, I saved £300!

 

[Dr J]

Holy shit Welshy came back.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

See you at the next election, cunts!

tell ur pals to hurry up and get a branch sorted in birmingham cheers

 

[Chunky Salsa]

tell ur pals to hurry up and get a branch sorted in birmingham cheers

Get involved and start one bisch!

 

[AssignedEva]

Some environmentalist lawyer is getting fucked by the Environment Agency for uh... cleaning up a river? (X)
The EA threatened him and some other volunteers for restoring sections of a 'lost' river (X)

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This man's the modern day Swampy. He lives in a boat and fights "environmental crimes", like defending Extinction Rebellion from trying to stop Wandsworth Council cutting down a tree.

There's definitely an element of him being punished for making the Environment Agency look bad - he's done a lot of volunteer working removing rubbish, cutting back overgrowth, eliminating invasive species and harassing Thames Water about their sewage dumps. But he's become obsessed with Alder's Brook, a grim silted up offshoot of the River Roding. Here's a comparison of an unrestored section and a restored section

He keeps fixating on it being an ancient stream and how he's a "river guardian" on a "spiritual quest" to revive a "sacred river". He also wants to transform parts of wasteland into something he calls the "Edgelands", basically a park/nature preserve. He fixated on the Roding because he got in a fight with the Canal & Rivers Trust -

Paul has lived on a boat for eight years, the majority of this time as a ‘continuous cruiser’. During this time, has dealt with many cases relating to boaters and the law of the waterways. This has included dealing with the Canal & Rivers Trust regarding licensing and ‘bona fide navigation’ issues and advising the National Bargee Travellers Association. He has also been instructed on contract, mooring and planning issues as they relate to boats and boaters. Having lived a travelling lifestyle on the waterways for many years, Paul knows some of the joys and struggles involved with that way of life. He is keen to assist all Travellers in fighting for their rights and in dealing with the legal challenges thrown at them.

Yet on a cold winter day in 2017, that is exactly what Paul Powlesland - a boat-dwelling barrister with a penchant for trees, rivers and psychedelic cat leggings - set out to do. An ongoing dispute with the Canal and Rivers Trust (who manage 2000 miles of Britain’s waterways) left Paul looking for a fresh place to moor his narrowboat, and a dream to make the mooring matter. “I wanted to be able to have an impact on the area I’m living in” he tells me by phone call, the Roding’s huge reeds visible over his shoulder, “rather than having to ask permission all the time to do something good.” His vision was a boating community with a difference. Rather than pay dues to a landlord, marina or regulatory body, it would pay them directly toward the transformation of the river itself.

The River Roding has had an enigmatic settlement of large houseboats at Barking’s town quay for twenty years. At odds with the draconian regulation of the primary canal network, Paul Powelsland saw the upper River Roding as an opportunity to establish a new model for how those living on boats could positively impact a locale; both natural and human. Having set sail for the Roding in 2017; which had become largely inaccessible to the public and was effectively derelict; Paul became the first liveaboard boater the upper river had seen.

Basically he didn't want to pay for a mooring, but didn't want to do the continuous cruising thing that canal dwellers have to do if they don't have a mooring, he just wanted to squat like gypsies do. So he sailed up the Thames and onto the Roding. Now in general, lawfare aside, he's largely the sort of harmless eccentric that Britain has historically thrived on - he just has his little community of boat dwellers living off grid and going around clearing out rubbish and planting trees.


The thing he's deliberately glossing over is what he's been doing to Alder's Brook. He keeps trying to get the local council to remove the embankments and flood defences around it (which is why it's silted up) so it can go back to being a free-flowing tidal brook... and more boat people can live on it. I'm somewhat sympathetic still, as it seems the main reason the river was barraged like this was to convert a salt marsh into a golf course back in the 50s and golf courses can be a big waste of space... although a lot of the other bits of the former marshes/floodplain now has buildings on it. Understandably, the council is not going to remove flood defences just because an environmental lawyer says it's unnecessary, so asked for a hydrological survey (£50k). He baulked at this, so has been using a digger to dig out the silt and river bed.

This sounds ok, but river dredging generally is only done these days for boat navigation - it's not considered a good idea to dredge because what you're doing there is altering the river's flow in unpredictable ways. The bit he's dredged is a lot nicer and has fish in it now, but this can have impacts upstream and downstream from changing erosion patterns and flow rates, which can massively increase the risk of floods or bank collapses next to buildings. Back in 2000, the river Roding burst its banks and caused millions of pounds of improvements to Barking and Ilford. Consequently, upstream there's been a very big project to build flood defences like embankments, divert the flow, create a flood storage area etc. that hydrodynamic engineers have carefully impacted.

While it's possible to get an exemption to dredge up to 20 metres of a river, anything bigger than that requires a special Flood Risk Activity Permit, which requires you to demonstrate that your plan to dredge a river isn't going to result in a bunch of people getting flooded homes. Paul hasn't done this because he couldn't afford the required surveys and has an antagonistic relationship with pretty much any related authority

He's also a bit schizo, he's claiming that he never told anyone about the digger so there's an Environmental Agency mole in his boat village, but in fact he's proudly given interviews that show he's illegally doing vibe hydrology in a way that could have knock on consequences to thousands of people because he's obsessed with turning an urban waterway that runs through shithole bits of East London back into a "sinuous natural ancient river".

Anyway It's easy to look at the before and afters and confidently say he improved the brook from being an ugly muddy ditch into a pretty stream. So he's deliberately framing this as him getting penalised for litter picking without a loicense, when in fact the local council and the Environment Agency has offered him assistance with his non-dredging related activities.

 

[Heinrich Maneuver]

Get involved and start one bisch!

post the warwick davis thread and i will

how he's a "river guardian" on a "spiritual quest" to revive a "sacred river".

he just wanted to squat like gypsies do

He's also a bit schizo

holy shit he's enviro-lolcow?

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

Get involved and start one bisch!

Are you genuinely terrified of midgets? Or is it a meme?

 

[Chunky Salsa]

Are you genuinely terrified of midgets? Or is it a meme?

I have a mild phobia of midgets and the deformed and the disabled. Not in a 'ahh eek!' but they make me deeply uncomfortable. I used to work with one, lovely woman, but I used think about throwing her into our lab dishwasher every day. Set to 'steam'.

 

[KeeKeeCooch]

I have a mild phobia of midgets and the deformed and the disabled. Not in a 'ahh eek!' but they make me deeply uncomfortable. I used to work with one, lovely woman, but I used think about throwing her into our lab dishwasher every day. Set to 'steam'.

I won't lie, if I were your friend IRL I'd probably just send you an endless supply of midget porn... maybe that's why I have no friends.