New Fivers contain animal fat...

[shakotan]

Camoradi said:

I'm going to buy myself a new wallet and fillet with new five pound notes

Make sure it's a leather wallet.

[shakotan]

Presumably all these offended vegans were totally fine with the amount of trees that had to be felled (and presumably unseated plenty of animals in the process) in order to create the paper money they've been using for years?

[Pesty]

gruffalo said:

Mr Tracy said:

gruffalo said:

Not found anywhere that states the origin of the tallow, does anyone know what animal it is sourced from?

Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, processed from suet. It is solid at room temperature. Wikipedia

Thanks, every day a school day;-)

Well they won't get anywhere then without you know who getting shirty.

[Sparkyhd]

Anyhow this is all redundant when we become a cashless society (like India)

[alfie2244]

gruffalo said:

Mr Tracy said:

gruffalo said:

Not found anywhere that states the origin of the tallow, does anyone know what animal it is sourced from?

Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, processed from suet. It is solid at room temperature. Wikipedia

Thanks, every day a school day;-)

Except that may not be 100% the case unless they now separate the different waste and render it seprately.

IIRC sheep with a fleece blocked things up and cats produced a different fat but I personally saw everything from Elelephants / whales as well as domestic animals go through the process but admittedly this was pre BSE / CJD so may have changed now.

This gives the general gist of things.

http://www.rense.com/general39/animal.htm

An old anecdote but not sure how true:

old people say fish & chips don't taste like they did may be due to a massive reduction in the use / rendering of horses.

[daddy cool]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Glad to hear it!

[FourWheelDrift]

4x4Tyke said:

It took me about two minutes googling to confirm tallow is the regular anti-static agent used to stop polymer pellets binding together.

What will these idiots wear on their feet?

Fair trade Raffia sandals only?

[motco]

Mammasaid said:

BBC Cumbria said:

Doug Maw, from Keswick, has started a petition against the use of tallow, saying it is unacceptable to a growing proportion of the population who are vegan, or eat a plant-based diet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-cumbria-...

How the Hell are they growing when they don't eat properly?

[Vipers]

Strange some religious chappies are not moaning about animal traces in explosives next.

[anonymous-user]

Pretty poor show TBH
Fair play if you choose to avoid animal products, even an idiot would have realised it was a dumbass idea to use animal products in notes..

[p1stonhead]

Aren't vegans against using anything made with animal products such as leather shoes etc?

8( so their reaction isn't that surprising is it?

[dandarez]

Jimboka said:

Pretty poor show TBH
Fair play if you choose to avoid animal products, even an idiot would have realised it was a dumbass idea to use animal products in notes..

The world is now full to the brim of saddo's who have to complain about everything.

I take it you don't have any soap nor candles in your house?

I also bet you're one of these that buys 'low fat' everything?

Anyway, must go... that steak smells lovely!

[hairyben]

Yeah they was all-a-sobbing about this on the radio (lbc), youd think nothing bad wss happening in the world.

Out of interest how much actual animal fat by % is in the new notes and how does that compare with whatever % an old paper note is actually sweat snot piss vomit and cum?

[dandarez]

hairyben said:

Yeah they was all-a-sobbing about this on the radio (lbc), youd think nothing bad wss happening in the world.

Out of interest how much actual animal fat by % is in the new notes and how does that compare with whatever % an old paper note is actually sweat snot piss vomit and cum?

It's 'tallow', same as used in soap and candles.

What a mad world. What can they (the offended) get upset at next?

[PhillipM]

p1stonhead said:

Aren't vegans against using anything made with animal products such as leather shoes etc?

8( so their reaction isn't that surprising is it?

Someone ought to remind them that all those plastic notes and everything else they are using is made out of dead animals compressed into oil.

[Vipers]

So even if they stop using tallow in the notes, how on earth do they recover them in circulation, apart from you cant.

So will the objectors refuse all notes just in case it has come into contact with those with tallow in.

I can fully understand folk being vegetarians and vegans, but to the point of not wanting to handle a £5 note is a bit to far I think. I am not a smoker, and it really irritates me when someone is upwind of me smoking, maybe I should start a petition to ban smoking totally, let me see.................

[V40Vinnie]

Im veggie but if you're going to use and animal you may as well use as much of it as possible.

[dandarez]

People are brain dead today. Animal fat has been used for an age in manufacture of lots of thing...

Jimboka better think twice the next time he's putting shopping in a plastic carrier bag (animal fat! is used, ie slip agent to prevent friction).

You could go on for ages...
As this is PHs, better check your car and bike tyres you tree-huggers!
Some tyre manufacturers use stearic acid, this assists in the tyres holding shape and under surface friction. Stearic acid?
It's animal based.



Sorry, got to go. My steak is now ready, and no, the fat is not cut off.

[Mr Tracy]

hairyben said:

Out of interest how much actual animal fat by % is in the new notes and how does that compare with whatever % an old paper note is actually sweat snot piss vomit and cum?

not to mention coke

[davepoth]

I used to work at "A Famous British Security Paper Manufacturer" (I won't name them ), and at the factory I worked at we did a number of banknotes and passports. Pretty much all of them (and I'm pretty sure the UK ones too although it's been a while since I was there) have gelatin in them, which comes from animals.

I remember that every year our biggest supplier of gelatin would send us a present - a big box of matches with a picture of a cow on it. Funny guys.