And finally…new BoE fivers do not meat vegan standards

It has emerged that the new hard-wearing polymer fivers, designed to replace the tatty old paper versions, contain tallow, a substance made from animal fat that is often used in the manufacturing of candles and soap.

The new notes have been in circulation for three months.

Devon-based model and vegan, Steffi Rox, took to Twitter to express her concerns and asked the Bank of England if it was true.

The bank replied that “there is a trace of tallow in the polymer pellets used in the base substrate of the polymer £5 notes”.

https://twitter.com/bankofengland/status/803273440807550976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

An online petition against the note has now been created which states: “The new £5 notes contain animal fat in the form of tallow. This is unacceptable to millions of vegans & vegetarians in the U.K. We demand that you cease to use animal products in the production of currency that we have to use.”

More than 1,700 people have so far signed the petition.

Presumably, twitter user @Pads45N isn’t one of them:

https://twitter.com/Pads45N/status/803342691962671104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw