Why vegans from the Uk they want to boycott the new 5 pound note in United Kingdom – BBC World

Image caption The new ticket of £5 is modern and made of plastic.

Boycott queen Elizabeth II. And to Churchill. Or, at least, the new bills containing their portraits soaked in animal fat.

That posed by vegans in the Uk, who were against the new ticket plastic 5 gbp after that I knew that contains sebum, a substance taken from the fat of animals.

Vegans and vegetarians came to the step of the newly launched ticket, criticizing the Bank of England.

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Image caption The reverse side of the ticket has to Winston Churchill, regarded by many as the father of the England contemporary.

In less than 48 hours, to the morning of Wednesday, nearly 60,000 people had signed an official request to the Bank of England asking him to remove the sebum of the tickets.

“This is unacceptable for millions of vegans and vegetarians in the Uk. We demand that they stop using animal products in the production of the currency,” reads the petition.

The Bank of England, the issuing entity, has not commented officially on the request.

however, a spokesman quoted by the british newspaper The Guardian said the problem was the polymer in which the printing of the new banknotes.

The company will buy the pellet of the polymer, Innovia Security, is a supplier for 80 denominations of banknotes in 24 countries.