Oh Dear.

This made me chuckle :D

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Brilliant.
Any veggie or vegan who wishes to donate theirs to me, pm for the address.:lol:
 
crofter said:
At least the new notes will be kinder to trees so it's not all bad.
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Why?
"Paper" money is cotton based, not wood based.
 
crofter said:
there'll be a glut of cotton,the bottom will fall out of the bedsheet market.
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As long as its Egyptian cotton and has no impact on the brexit deal :D
 
crofter said:
There will be more work for the plastic miners though.
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They still have it easy compared to the annual problems of the licorice miners.
 
Shouldn't be a problem. The few vegans I've ever met didn't even have a job ......what do they want money for? They just barter with eggs, curly kale, wicker baskets & crystal healing, don't they :D
 
Steep said:
All Scottish polymer notes are vegan friendly, just saying. :)
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As someone said on the radio earlier, they will all contain meat particles at some point, as they would have been handled by a butcher ...
Which of course begs the question, how will that also affect Muslims ?
 
Cobra said:
As someone said on the radio earlier, they will all contain meat particles at some point, as they would have been handled by a butcher ...
Which of course begs the question, how will that also affect Muslims ?
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and Jews and Hindus though the main problem vegans have is the killing of animals to make the notes.
 
Steep said:
and Jews and Hindus though the main problem vegans have is the killing of animals to make the notes.
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Ah yes, Do, a deer a female deer :D
 
Steep said:
and Jews and Hindus though the main problem vegans have is the killing of animals to make the notes.
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Well, as long as it actually is tallow, Jews should be happy. Of all the fascinating facts I learned due to these new fivers, one is that if you make tallow from pigs then you call it lard instead.

There was a great article on More or Less the other day working out exactly how much tallow there is in these notes. It's about 25 kilos*. Spread over 300 odd million notes. Now of course that's 25 kilos too many, but I think it's fairly similar to the concentration of cocaine on £10 notes.

And most vegans are surprisingly chill about all this - the Hindus will sort it for us. There are loads of them and people take them seriously because it's a religion. Oh wait, sorted.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...f-england-innovia_uk_583fd0abe4b0bd623ad9b691

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* Apparently cows weigh 750 kilos and are 25% fat. So the total is about 1/7 of a cow. Or we could replace all the notes in circulation and still have half a cow left.
 
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I wonder what other products use the same (or others produced using a similar process) polymer pellets. From what I can gather, the tallow is used as a lubricant in the production process so minute traces end up in the final product.
 
I would imagine that that list is just the tip of an iceberg that's recently been calved off a massive glacier! At a guess, we probably inhale more animal in a day than we'll ever handle on banknotes. As for the makeup, can't say I use it!
 
It seems that even McDonald's won't take the Scottish plastic fivers either ,rumours have it they contain no money :popcorn:
 
andy700 said:
God forbid the new fivers should ever be found containing horsemeat!
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If they do, and anyone objects whilst they're legal tender...I'm happy to take them off the tree/horse lovers hands. :-)
 
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