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Cityzen said:
Are your belts, shoes and coats plastic? Your wife’s handbags, purses etc?
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Apologies
I missed this serious/sensible question.
I haven’t bought any animal products for over a year. And yes that includes belts, shoes etc.
(That doesn’t often mean buying plastic though. Mainly natural plant based stuff like cotton)
Mrs Tash hasn’t bought any animal products for much longer. Maybe 5 or 6 years at a guess.
I’m planning to never buy any animal products again. I’m not 100% I’ll be able to do that, but I haven’t seen anything yet that means I’ll have to.
I have decided that I will still use anything I already own that is animal based until
It needs replacing though, because one of the reasons I decided to stop buying animal products was for environmental reasons and it seems daft, to me anyway, to throw perfectly good things away just to rebuy plant based versions to make a point.

That’s where I am with it at the moment
 
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dennisboothstash said:
You really don’t understand capitalism do you.

I’d hazard a guess that hardly anyone had bought that card, and to gamble on deliberately creating an issue to encourage ‘protest’ buying really isn’t Sainsbury’s style. They’ve famously built the empire on small per item profit and small risk.

If people thought it was a good card in the first place, rather than it just being the potential of some people who were offended by it being taken off the shelves buying it, then they’d still be on the shelves.

Just like politics we all, collectively, get what we deserve.

If there were enough people offended by that card being removed and stopped shopping there you can guarantee that next Christmas there’d be loads of trans humour on cards. But there isn’t. Whether you, I, or anyone on here likes it there’s more people who don’t want to see cards like that, and are prepared to use their money to make a point, than there are people who want to buy it.

Price of living in a capitalist society. (And I’m not suggesting there’s a better option…it’s just how it is)

It’s why wages at staff level in the average massive business have, over recent decades, raised at a much, much, lower level than CEOs. The successful CEO’s and Boards have worked out how to extract the maximum profit from the majority of people. Decisions like this are part of that whether we like it or not.
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It wasn’t trans humour. Or anti trans. Just interpreted that way by some saddos.
dennisboothstash said:
Apologies
I missed this serious/sensible question.
I haven’t bought any animal products for over a year. And yes that includes belts, shoes etc.
(That doesn’t often mean buying plastic though. Mainly natural plant based stuff like cotton)
Mrs Tash hasn’t bought any animal products for much longer. Maybe 5 or 6 years at a guess.
I’m planning to never buy any animal products again. I’m not 100% I’ll be able to do that, but I haven’t seen anything yet that means I’ll have to.
I have decided that I will still use anything I already own that is animal based until
It needs replacing though, because one of the reasons I decided to stop buying animal products was for environmental reasons and it seems daft, to me anyway, to throw perfectly good things away just to rebuy plant based versions to make a point.

That’s where I am with it at the moment
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It was a serious question. I had a vegan manager at work a few years ago. Vegan, teetotal, non smoker.(Very similar to Hitler who was let down by his love of cream cakes). He wouldn’t have anything leather. Brilliant chess player, he had to travel far and wide to get decent opponents of his standard. A bit of a strange bloke all round, most great chess players are somewhat eccentric. <laugh> Never married. Why was something we only found out later after the place shut down.
 
Some will be fully versed in this subject.... I wasn't and found some of this interesting (if he doesnt skull you to sleep)..

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Cityzen said:
It wasn’t trans humour. Or anti trans. Just interpreted that way by some saddos.


It was a serious question. I had a vegan manager at work a few years ago. Vegan, teetotal, non smoker.(Very similar to Hitler who was let down by his love of cream cakes). He wouldn’t have anything leather. Brilliant chess player, he had to travel far and wide to get decent opponents of his standard. A bit of a strange bloke all round, most great chess players are somewhat eccentric. <laugh> Never married. Why was something we only found out later after the place shut down.
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'Somewhat eccentric', some would claim that birds of a feather flock together, I, of course, couldn't possibly comment.
 
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