Veganuary

December 31, 2017 Longrider General News, Humour, misanthropy 9

A New Year a new fad, it seems.

‘Veganuary’ has become the latest trend for those looking to bring in the New Year with a detox as supermarkets have revealed an increase in demand for meat and dairy free food.

The number of people committing to eat a vegan diet this month has risen from 1,500 in 2014 to 52,000 in 2018, making the UK the biggest market in the world for the challenge followed by the US.

Whatever floats your boat, I suppose. I wouldn’t dream of stopping someone going vegan if that’s what they want, but don’t expect me to follow suit. And these “go dry for” January, October or whatever are merely tedious attempts to manipulate those who are incapable of making their own decisions.

Sainsbury’s have announced a new Vegan range to be released today (MON) and Aldi will be releasing new lines later this week, describing the decision as ““More of what you WANT!”

I don’t want it.

The ‘Veganuary’ campaign, which is being promoted by an international charity of the same name and has seen 120,000 people around the world commit to go vegan, comes after the success of Dry January, a public health campaign prompting people to stop drinking for a month.

120,000 people out of 7.6 billion. Well, yeah a roaring success then. And that Dry January bollocks, that stopped people drinking, didn’t it? If it did, why are the various fake charities still banging on about people’s drinking habits? Or is that just a habit? BTW – I do hope we aren’t paying for this “international charity”…

I’ve never made a New Year’s resolution and have no plans to start. 2018 will see me doing much the same as I have in 2017, 2016 and all those years previous. Still, I suppose Veganuary will please this nasty twat – even if Slicey the Pig is still available on Amazon… And this place is still going strong despite his threats to get me shut down. He is, at least, consistent in his abject failure. Better luck in 2018, eh?

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  2. According to the Vegan Society there are now 542,000 vegans in the UK

    Store Numbers:
    Aldi ~700
    Asda ~630
    Lidl ~650
    Morrisons ~490
    Sainsburys ~1400
    Tesco ~3739
    Waitrose ~350
    Total: 7959

    (Omitting Co-Op, Premier, Costcutter, Spar etc)

    Thus, <52 Vegans per store.

    Targetting that tiny market does not appear profitable – virtue signalling at shareholders' & customers expense?

    Mrs Pcar & I: we're omnivores as God intended.
    .
    No Vegans here, only stoicism

    Laughing in the face of evil: New book reveals the indomitable spirit – and remarkable black humour – of [Britain after terrorist attack]

    He was told that no bones were broken but that he was likely to suffer from shock and trauma and needed to stay in bed.

    He was not impressed by the diagnosis. ‘Listen, mate,’ he told the doctor, ‘I’ve just been blown up by a bomb and buried under ten tons of rubble. What bigger shock can I have than that?’

    Stiff-upper-lip attitudes like this amazed Carlos Perez-Avila, an A&E consultant from South America: ‘At home there would have been hysteria but here there was no crying and no one moaned, despite very serious injuries. I had never come across that sort of attitude before. It was surreal.’

    Happy New Year to all

  3. Why do these “new” do-it-for-a-month campaigns always choose the same month as one of the other ones? I know that January is a time for resolutions and all that, but we already get the boringly-predictable scattergun anti-smoking ads for January, then we got Dry January as well, and now we’ve got this, too? Ditto with anti-smoking’s Stoptober clashing with Sober October. It’s daft. Why can’t they choose a month when we’re not already being exhorted to give something else up? They’ve got 10 others to choose from! Trying to give up all one’s indulgences in one go is probably the most reliable way of ensuring that you fail to give up any of them!

  5. Well, I might start. When I’ve emptied the fridge and freezer of all the fish & game! Which looks like it might be round about October…

    Happy New Year!

  6. My Eldest Son was a power lifter over 15 stone and he decided to go on a vegan diet and he lost 4 stone muscle and fat i presume, anyway he gave it up he couldnt keep warm in a Scottish Winter
    Happy New Year

  8. Like you I don’t do resolutions either. I stop drinking after New Year because I’m an endurance athlete and have to get my finger out and get some training done. I do it because I enjoy it, in a weirdly masochistic way, and because it keeps me slim and fit. Before I joined a private Gym I used to have membership of three council run leisure centres that came as a package. These would invariably be invaded by the Resolutionaries every January and the swimming pool would be very crowded for a couple of weeks.

    As for the Vegans, well if that is their thing then good luck to them and as long as they are not harming me by promoting their fad I don’t mind. When the Government gets involved that is a different matter as it is non of their business and they are doing it with my money.

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