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The U.K.'s new plastic money has a surprise ingredient: Animal fat
CNN ^

Posted on 11/29/2016 6:00:04 PM PST by ameribbean expat

The Bank of England admitted Monday that traces of tallow, derived from animal fat, can be found in the new British £5 notes that went into circulation in September.

The news prompted an immediate outcry from vegetarians and vegans, some of whom called on the central bank to stop using animal products in its currency.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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C'mon pork fat!
1 posted on 11/29/2016 6:00:04 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Sepoy Rebellion part II.


2 posted on 11/29/2016 6:01:34 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: ameribbean expat

BUMP!


3 posted on 11/29/2016 6:02:21 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: ameribbean expat

Oh, yeah!


4 posted on 11/29/2016 6:02:29 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: ameribbean expat

They would never use pork fat! Heads would roll! Literally!

Of course, the Hindus might be pleased with the beef fat (tallow) but they are less likely to massacre anyone.


5 posted on 11/29/2016 6:02:40 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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might = might not


6 posted on 11/29/2016 6:03:01 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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I've handled plastic money in several countries...don't like it one bit.Once it's been scrunched up (shoved in a pocket for example) it's never the same.
7 posted on 11/29/2016 6:04:22 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Joe 6-pack
"Sepoy Rebellion part II"

Jeez, you'd think that the Brits would have learned from the first go-round ...

8 posted on 11/29/2016 6:05:15 PM PST by BlueLancer ("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
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To: ameribbean expat

Put some pork fat in there, widely advertise it in Londonistan, and puff, all the radical Muslims will self deport.


9 posted on 11/29/2016 6:05:28 PM PST by Fungi
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C'mon pork fat!

Yep, I read somewhere the surprise ingredient is Pork fat.

10 posted on 11/29/2016 6:06:41 PM PST by LucyT
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To: ClearCase_guy

It is possible to have “pork tallow”...but beef and mutton are most used/popular. It is also possible to have vegetarian tallow i.e “Tallow Tree”.

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-tallow.htm


11 posted on 11/29/2016 6:06:58 PM PST by Drago
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Clearly, to please everyone, both beef and pork must be avoided. The answer is... schmaltz (chicken fat) !


12 posted on 11/29/2016 6:08:26 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine (Hey)
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Clearly, to please everyone, both beef and pork must be avoided. The answer is... schmaltz (chicken fat) !

Or . . . "What is Soylent Green?" Liberals would be okay with that ingredient, if the money were printed to fund parasitic social programs.

13 posted on 11/29/2016 6:13:33 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ameribbean expat

BACON...Bacon and more bacon......islamics flee UK in droves.


14 posted on 11/29/2016 6:14:07 PM PST by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: ameribbean expat

So don’t eat it then :P


15 posted on 11/29/2016 6:14:07 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Fungi

They would either self deport or torch every building in town.


16 posted on 11/29/2016 6:14:14 PM PST by Farmer Dean (Boating accident?Seriously?)
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I've handled plastic money in several countries...don't like it one bit.Once it's been scrunched up (shoved in a pocket for example) it's never the same. <<<

Nope!...But it's still “fiat money”....It could be worth alot if the plastic is valuable....Kinda a Greshams Law thing....Do your own DD....

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greshams-law.asp?lgl=no-infinite

17 posted on 11/29/2016 6:15:56 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: ameribbean expat

People are so freaking stupid.

When animals are killed for consumption, there are many bi-products. By saying they don’t want those bi-products used, people are saying they would prefer to have as much of the animal wasted as can be accomplished.

IMO < it’s far better to use every last it of the animal. The less that is wasted the better.

Using every possible bit of the animal, is more respectful of the animal. It means it died for as full a purpose as could be accomplished.


18 posted on 11/29/2016 6:18:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: Farmer Dean

True.


19 posted on 11/29/2016 6:20:15 PM PST by Fungi
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To: ameribbean expat

The Sepoys are coming and boy are they mad!


20 posted on 11/29/2016 6:31:24 PM PST by kaehurowing
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