Why are Kellogs Breakfast serials suddenly marked with a halal sign on the side of the packaging?

[Guest MattP]

Whether you eat Halal or not the only important thing in 2018 is for people to come together and attack the vegan community.

[lifted*fox]

2 minutes ago, MattP said:

Whether you eat Halal or not the only important thing in 2018 is for people to come together and attack the vegan community.

 

I know this is said in jest but if everyone ate a few more plant-based meals a week and reduced their meat intake it would have a huge positive impact on climate change. 

[RoboFox]

29 minutes ago, lifted*fox said:

 

I know this is said in jest but if everyone ate a few more plant-based meals a week and reduced their meat intake it would have a huge positive impact on climate change. 

 

Are you sure? I mean, I ate a five-bean chili the other day, and my personal emissions over the following hours must've equated to a several-degree increase in the earth's atmospheric temperature. 

Edited 1 November 2018 by RoboFox

[Guest MattP]

44 minutes ago, lifted*fox said:

I know this is said in jest but if everyone ate a few more plant-based meals a week and reduced their meat intake it would have a huge positive impact on climate change. 

I'm sure it would, if everyone took less flights and more public transport it would as well but most don't want to make any sacrifice.

 

Aside from potatoes I eat pretty much zero fruit and veg so it's a total no-go for me.

[leicsmac]

7 minutes ago, MattP said:

I'm sure it would, if everyone took less flights and more public transport it would as well but most don't want to make any sacrifice.

 

Aside from potatoes I eat pretty much zero fruit and veg so it's a total no-go for me.

Did @Finnegan ever start that MattP gout sweepstake?

[Guest]

52 minutes ago, lifted*fox said:

 

I know this is said in jest but if everyone ate a few more plant-based meals a week and reduced their meat intake it would have a huge positive impact on climate change. 

If we got rid of all our cars and walked everywhere, you could eat as much meat as you liked without worrying about climate change.

[lifted*fox]

5 minutes ago, MattP said:

I'm sure it would, if everyone took less flights and more public transport it would as well but most don't want to make any sacrifice.

 

 Aside from potatoes I eat pretty much zero fruit and veg so it's a total no-go for me.

 

I agree with the sentiment but most people only take a couple of flights per year for holidays (unless you fly a lot for business) and most would use more public transport if it wasn't so shite / expensive all of the time. 

 

Eating and buying your food more responsibly isn't too difficult to do and everyone can do a little bit towards it - it starts off small at home and could make quite a significant impact. 

 

It may not be of any interest to you but there is a plant-based mince you can buy in Sainbury's now:

 

 

We've used it a few times in a chilli or bolognese and you can't tell the difference between that and real mince. It's only a small change but it all helps!

[lifted*fox]

4 minutes ago, FIF said:

If we got rid of all our cars and walked everywhere, you could eat as much meat as you liked without worrying about climate change.

 

again, whilst I agree with the sentiment - giving up your car for most people is a bit of a stretch, especially with public transport being so rotten in this country; late, fewer services, expensive, etc.

 

eating more responsibly is the easier thing for most people to do.

[Guest MattP]

Thanks for the advice but I was scarred for life eating a vegetarian sausage roll someone told me "tasted like the real thing".

[Bellend Sebastian]

56 minutes ago, MattP said:

Whether you eat Halal or not the only important thing in 2018 is for people to come together and attack the vegan community.

I think it's important at this point to draw your attention to the fact that you can now buy vegan Cornettos.

 

Another barrier to you adopting a plant based diet smashed

[lifted*fox]

4 minutes ago, MattP said:

Thanks for the advice but I was scarred for life eating a vegetarian sausage roll someone told me "tasted like the real thing".

 

fair enough. I've had meat 'substitutes' which taste like shit too tbh. eating vegan isn't really about replicating the taste of meat - it's about enjoying the taste of plant-based food on it's own merit. 

 

so yeah - the mince above doesn't really taste like beef mince but it goes nicely in a chilli, is good for you and good for the planet. 

[Alf Bentley]

28 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

I think it's important at this point to draw your attention to the fact that you can now buy vegan Cornettos.

 

Another barrier to you adopting a plant based diet smashed

 

They're using this stuff to make Cornettos now.......? 

 

 

[Alf Bentley]

1 hour ago, MattP said:

Whether you eat Halal or not the only important thing in 2018 is for people to come together and attack the vegan community.

 

 

Vegans are nuts. They need to be hunted down until the last one is left without a pulse. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

17 hours ago, Evington Fosse Fox said:

I have just suddenly noticed that my Kellogs Cornsflakes have the halal sign on side of the box. I did a bit more digging around and so do  Coco Pops and a few other Kellogs breakies.

 

I get signs warning for nut allergies, vegetarian labelling but do not get the halal thing.

 

Does anybody know why they need to labelled as Halal??

 

I only though they labelled meat products as halal which would require a Muslim prayer to be recited whilst the poor animal bleeds to death very slowly. 

 

Would like to know why Kellogs are enforcing this? 

 

Maybe ask Kellogg’s if it’s such an issue for you ? 

[Jon the Hat]

I don't mind Vegan's but I couldn't eat a whole one.

 

We only have one car now, and I travel to work on bus and train, so I feel free to eat all the meat I can.

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

 

Vegans are nuts. They need to be hunted down until the last one is left without a pulse. 

Do you mean - Beans and pulses in your diet

 

Or

 

 

Probably both.

[Alf Bentley]

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

Do you mean - Beans and pulses in your diet

Or

 

 

Probably both.

 

You know me, Davie. If in doubt, assume a cheesy pun (though that would be no good for a vegan unless it was non-dairy cheese....)

[Bellend Sebastian]

1 hour ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

They're using this stuff to make Cornettos now.......? 

 

 

Smash has probably got more flavour than a vegan Cornetto in fairness.

 

They lack a certain something

[Evington Fosse Fox]

Thank you all for the explanations.

 

At least I now know that the grains of rice krispies bobbing in and around my cerial bowl were not inhumanly slaughtered grain and grain and we're condemned the authiest way (so not a halal prayer). 

 

 

[Strokes]

I’d be happy to eat vegans if it helped towards the environment or any impending food crisis.

[Buce]

4 hours ago, MattP said:

Whether you eat Halal or not the only important thing in 2018 is for people to come together and attack the vegan community.

 

2 hours ago, Alf Bentley said:

 

 

Vegans are nuts. They need to be hunted down until the last one is left without a pulse. 

 

2 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

I don't mind Vegan's but I couldn't eat a whole one.

 

We only have one car now, and I travel to work on bus and train, so I feel free to eat all the meat I can.

 

47 minutes ago, Strokes said:

I’d be happy to eat vegans if it helped towards the environment or any impending food crisis.

 

Two things:

 

1) I hope I'm receiving due recognition for my refusal to rise to the bait, and

 

2) Your names have been noted.

[Alf Bentley]

6 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

Two things:

 

1) I hope I'm receiving due recognition for my refusal to rise to the bait, and

 

2) Your names have been noted.

 

Does that make you a pescatarian?

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

TBF the Quorn nuggets taste exactly like chicken nuggets, most meat-free "meat" is disgusting rubbery bullshit

 

I had been eating much less meat till recently, but I've started doing loads more excercise than I used to and I find if I don't have meat and eggs at night I lack energy the next day, so I basically have a full English most night. And I never get bored of it

[Dr The Singh]

22 minutes ago, Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo said:

TBF the Quorn nuggets taste exactly like chicken nuggets, most meat-free "meat" is disgusting rubbery bullshit

 

I had been eating much less meat till recently, but I've started doing loads more excercise than I used to and I find if I don't have meat and eggs at night I lack energy the next day, so I basically have a full English most night. And I never get bored of it

There's probably more protein in a Quorn one then a meat one

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

11 hours ago, Dr The Singh said:

There's probably more protein in a Quorn one then a meat one

Had to look it up

 

Protein per 100g:

McNuggets 16g

Birdseye Chicken Dippers 13g

Quorn Nuggets 10.3g