[Jamie89]

"Vegetarian cafe refuses new 'animal fat' £5 note"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-38184599

I think this is really bad of the cafe. Admittedly it's hard for me to fully empathise since I'm not a vegan/vegetarian but their argument is with the banks, not the general public. So it's not fair of them to do something that might disadvantage their customers.

If they want to make a stand then by all mean do it but they should be going directly to the source, hold a protest or something. As it is this just comes over as a lazy protest to me, punishing the small man because it's easier and hoping the big man will notice. I respect their views but as far as the action they've chosen goes it's not the right way to go about it.

Our whole business is based around not having anything like that on the premises," Mrs Meijland said.
She's got it mixed up imo, it's about the products that they sell to customers being vegetarian, which isn't affected by the currency being used, as she said herself...
"Although the same person doesn't handle the money that handles the food, that's not really the point."

Fair enough none of the customers have complained but in principle I just think it's wrong of them and if it was to catch on and be adopted by other businesses it could become a problem.