tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10815380.post1400588350954677969..comments2024-03-14T12:42:51.995+00:00Comments on Chris Whiteside's Blog: Do the people who are protesting about £5 notes make a habit of eating them?Chris Whitesidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02888720969479013951noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10815380.post-76865009108112138992016-12-03T00:42:47.201+00:002016-12-03T00:42:47.201+00:00You are of course entirely right.
If there were a...You are of course entirely right.<br /><br />If there were any way to verify it I would love the opportunity to bet the organisers of the petition that 99% of those who signed it have done at least one of those things.<br /><br />And whether you go home in a car or on public transport it is overwhelmingly probable that the seat you sit on will be either leather or some form of plastic and therefore that the manufacture of your seat will have involved some form of animal product.Chris Whitesidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02888720969479013951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10815380.post-17103231355381725492016-12-02T13:43:23.833+00:002016-12-02T13:43:23.833+00:00Thats just it though isn't it. I wonder how ...Thats just it though isn't it. I wonder how many of the people who object to using the new £5 note, instead will reach into their leather wallets, pull out a plastic credit or debit card, pay with that, then carry their veg home in a carrier bag. possibly driving it home in a car with leather seats.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373005279697295131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10815380.post-52878913563622680492016-12-02T12:36:40.996+00:002016-12-02T12:36:40.996+00:00Groan (terrible joke about fiver day)
Appreciate ...Groan (terrible joke about fiver day)<br /><br />Appreciate what you are saying about your Muslim colleague. <br /><br />Avoiding even touching products with the tiniest amount of animal fat would be just about impossible to do, though. As I said in the main post there are thousands of them and it is practically impossible to know whether a given item has any animal fat content however small or what animal it has come from.<br /><br />But the list of things to avoid would start with soap, toothpaste, candles, crayons, almost anything made of latex, detergents, plastic bags ...<br /><br />Chris Whitesidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02888720969479013951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10815380.post-84922881962777296772016-12-02T06:48:10.589+00:002016-12-02T06:48:10.589+00:00We could make the notes using vegetable fat I gues...We could make the notes using vegetable fat I guess. Helping everyone get their fiver day :-)<br /><br />- SorryJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373005279697295131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10815380.post-38464070073636154592016-12-02T06:38:33.844+00:002016-12-02T06:38:33.844+00:00When I was on a tour in the Falkland Islands there...When I was on a tour in the Falkland Islands there was a Muslim from the Royal Navy who also worked on the transmitter site, where I did. Its remote (12 miles from Mount Pleasant Airfield (MPA - the main site where the mess and things were) and transmitters had to be manned 24/7. We had our own kitchen at the transmitter site and each week were given a few boxes of rations (meat, tins of food, veg etc)<br /><br />Not only would he not eat pork, he would also not eat any of the other red meats as he had not seen evidence that it was halal. But he also would not help carry the rations in case he accidentally touched it.<br /><br />He also would not go into a bar which was open, and would not touch sealed cans of beer. It may have just been his way out of doing some jobs, but, he did claim it was against the rules of his religion for a muslim to even make contact with pork or Beer.<br /><br />I guess some vegans feel the same way about things so for example would not wear leather shoes.<br /><br />Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373005279697295131noreply@blogger.com