{"id":69183,"date":"2016-12-01T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69183"},"modified":"2016-12-01T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T11:19:57","slug":"more-vegan-idiocy-uk-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69183","title":{"rendered":"More Vegan Idiocy, UK-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems as if the vegan community in the UK have their knickers in a knot again.\u00a0 But this time around, it&#8217;s not about the normal vegan \u201ccauses du jour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This time, they\u2019re apparently \u201coutraged\u201d over the UK\u2019s new 5-pound banknote.\u00a0 They\u2019re up in arms because the new polymer banknote \u201cis not vegan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2016\/11\/30\/u-k-s-first-ever-plastic-5-bill-has-really-upset-vegans.html\"><em>Seriously<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that small amounts of animal products \u2013 tallow, specifically \u2013 are used during the manufacturing process.\u00a0 So that makes the new notes \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silly me.\u00a0 I always thought banknotes were <em>money &#8211;<\/em> not food.\u00a0 But apparently vegas must eat them.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about yer &#8220;green&#8221; diet!\u00a0 I guess I need to learn more about vegan \u00a0\u00a0 <del>idiocy<\/del> \u00a0\u00a0 practices.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n<p>IMO the best response was from one guy in the UK. \u00a0He\u2019s offered any vegan who finds the new 5-pound unacceptable the opportunity to get rid of those &#8220;icky&#8221; banknotes in exchange for a pound &#8211; presumably a pound coin, which contains no animal products.<\/p>\n<p>No word on how many takers he&#8217;s had so far.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems as if the vegan community in the UK have their knickers in a &hellip; <a title=\"More Vegan Idiocy, UK-Style\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69183\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Vegan Idiocy, UK-Style<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}