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  3 hrs ago

COFFEE AT JOHN LEWIS IN THE MALL

  4 hrs ago

APPLE STORE

This looks cool. But International control of Nations doesn’t!

  4 hrs ago

TKMAXX
V QUIET

Wednesday @ CribbsCausway

  5 hrs ago

CARAVANS PARKED ON THE DOWNS

These caravans look very derelict when you walk past them, I didn’t see signs of a person inside when I walked past. Maybe people are at work? But I got the impression that at least half were abandoned.
If I was the council I would bring in a parking thing so that you can’t park for more than 4 hours on the downs.

  11 hrs ago

INFORMING OURSELVES ABOUT WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD TODAY?

Click the crown and link to the Comments screen for this Notice where you should find youTube videos that will inform you about what is going on behind the scenes in the World today.

  Jan 13 2026

WHAT’S WRONG WITH TIKTOK?

The Almighty Gob: Satirical Philosopher based in Bristol.

See what he has to say about TikTok?
https://www.thealmightygob.com/p/i-tried-tiktok-what-i-found-was-anger?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

MB37   Jan 13 2026

VEGETARIAN OR VIRTUE SIGNALLING PROCESSED FOOD PROMOTER?

Walk into any supermarket in January and you’ll find them: vegan lamb cutlets. Vegan bacon. Plant-based sausages. And nobody’s asking the obvious question—if you’re ethically opposed to eating animals, why the hell are you buying food shaped like dead ones?

That’s the whole game exposed in one absurd product.

Here’s what those vegan lamb cutlets tell you: Veganuary isn’t recruiting ethical vegans who’ll live on dahl and rice. It’s recruiting consumers for a multi-billion pound processed food mar Moreket—people who want the moral performance without changing their relationship with food.

A committed vegan—someone who’s genuinely rejected animal products on principle—isn’t wandering the aisles looking for plant-based bacon. They’re buying dried beans, lentils, seasonal vegetables. Actual plants, not industrially processed derivatives shaped like the animals they claim to oppose eating.

But you can’t build a billion-pound industry on dried lentils. You CAN build one on Beyond Burgers sold to middle-class consumers performing ethics through shopping baskets.

The Three Markets.

Market One: Genuine ethical vegans. Small population who arrived at veganism through independent moral reasoning. Eating dahl, bean stews, pulses, seeds. Low profit margin—dried beans cost pennies. Already committed before Veganuary existed. Not the target.

Market Two: Commercially recruited consumers. Large potential market recruited by corporate marketing, not personal conviction. Eating Beyond Burgers, vegan bacon—maintaining the same consumption patterns but with different branded products. High profit margin—£4+ for textured pea protein. THIS is Veganuary’s target. Corporate recruits performing an identity they’ve been sold.

Market Three: Omnivores. Not interested. Though “flexitarians” buying processed vegan products alongside regular shopping might be the wedge.

The existence of meat-shaped vegan products proves this distinction. Market One doesn’t need “vegan lamb cutlets”—they rejected the concept through genuine conviction. Market Two needs them because they haven’t rejected anything. Just been sold a different brand.

Is It Practical?

Middle-class office worker with Waitrose nearby? Sure. You can afford £4 oat milk and plant-based burgers at double the price of beef.

Working two jobs, shopping at Iceland? Your £4 buys eight beef burgers or two vegan ones. Veganuary isn’t practical—it’s insulting.

That’s the class dynamic everyone ignores. Veganuary requires disposable income. If you don’t have it, you’re apparently not committed enough to ethics.

Is It Logical?

If the goal is environmental sustainability, why create MORE processed foods requiring MORE industrial facilities?

The logical solution: eat less meat, simpler foods, support local production. Dried beans, lentils, seasonal vegetables have lowest environmental impact.

But there’s no money in bulk dried pulses.

So instead: “vegan lamb cutlets”—£6 for textured pea protein shaped like dead sheep.

The Processing Question Nobody Answers.

Here’s what the market tells you: Beyond Burger costs £4.28 for two burgers. Tesco beef burgers cost £4 for eight. Oat milk costs £1.75-£2.25 per litre. Dairy milk costs £0.73 per litre.

Processed vegan products cost 2-3 times what animal products cost.

Price reflects resource input. Manufacturing cost. Processing complexity. Energy consumption. If plant-based products genuinely required less energy, fewer resources, lower environmental impact, they’d cost LESS to produce, not MORE.

More from The Almighty Gob?

https://www.thealmightygob.com/p/veganuary-or-how-vegan-lamb-cutlets

  Jan 12 2026

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