I'll bet it is hard for a greenie to admit that the best definition of a weed is "a plant growing in the wrong place". Thus I have removed a few trees. However I have planted many multiples of those in suitable places.

A new neighbor said recently that they didn't realise there was a house in there, as there were so many trees & bush in there that they couldn't see one. I have the photo of that house I took from the road to send to my lady 33 years ago for her opinion.

Meanwhile I have planted hundreds of trees on the place, which was previously a turf farm. Not all of this has gone well. I planted 100 Paulownia trees in 1992. Spent a great deal of time & money watering them through the extreme drought years of 93 & 94, only to have them die of root rot in the very wet 1996.

Others such as Silky Oak grow like weeds, once helped above the grass. I do have to control the gum trees, or this area quickly becomes useless thicket scrub. The previous owners the aborigines would never have let it get so thick, they would have had the fire stick in there very quickly.

My neighbors 10,000 acre paddock is becoming useless with scrub, even the roos have moved over here. He used to burn the rubbish regularly, doing an area each year, but has given up now. He couldn't stand the complaints of smoke from the know nothing new chum greenies on their 1.5 acre blocks in the new sub development.

How many trees have you planted Paul?

Really another useless post from the poodle.

Cross contamination is the principal source rather than deliberate inclusion.

Stricter rules including a formal definition of vegan is likely to assist in better regulating food processing facilities and the EU is already considering such rules. Little hope for the UK though since after Brexit, which was largely about industry being able to force less prescriptive regulations, will have zero intention of changing the rules.

"Vegans and their ridiculous attitudes to animals and animal products are off the planet.

I say hang em', hang em high, but not before force feeding em' a couple of kgs of rump steak!

This is the typical attitude to anyone who in the opinion of an arch conservative, dares to be different. ttbn, if they are not hurting YOU, why are they off the planet?

ttbn,

<<There is a great difference between vegetarians and vegans. And vegans are definitely woke. The post is about woke vegans, not vegetarians. Vegetarianism is OK for reasons of health, religion or whatever. Vegans and their ridiculous attitudes to animals and animal products are off the planet.>>

Well if you actually read the article, (have you?) you will find out that:

"For many white Australians (in earlier times), dinner looked pretty monochrome. "Basically, you had potatoes and cabbage, and people would grow their own, but there wasn't really [a fruit and vegetable] industry,"

This would easily apply to easily to people living in poverty and living very basic lifestyles. They were essentially eating very little and couldn't afford meat. I wouldn't call them woke at all and they were living on plant-based diets.

Overseas at present where many are starving, they are also living on plant-based diets (or nothing) and dying of starvation. I'd hardly call that woke either.

I'm also vegetarian and care about animals too by the way.

Finally, it looks like you are trying to stir the pot here, something another poster here does now and then (you'd know their name and it ends with a why?). Please don't be a replica of that person!

Here we go again. (Groan)

Wikipedia describes 'woke' as meaning "... alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". So now the right wing nutters are using the word to describe people who don't agree with what said nutter claims we should or should not eat. Where does the right wing get off on judging everyone else about everything?

So a capitalist pig unscrupulous corporation is lying to vegans. What a strange world it is when the vegans are painted the 'strange ones' by RWNs and not the corporations.

But I guess that 'woke' is just another of the de rigueur comments spat out by unimaginative lemmings of the right. Add it to "Left wing Marxist", "Marxist plot", "Rainbow agenda" etc. etc. etc. Yawn!

Nathan

What article are you talking about? My source didn't mention Australia; it was all about the UK, which has enough stories of its own without referring to Australia.

You go to the trouble of announcing that you are a vegetarian - again - continuing to ignore the fact that the post is about VEGANS.

I'm pleased to hear from you. I respect your opinions, but I will be sticking with mine. Vegetarianism OK. Veganism off the planet; but they deserve to get what manufacturers on labels claim that they are getting, just like everyone deserves to, no matter that they are as woke as can be - not to mention sickly looking. Some, like the mob attacking a restaurant in Perth recently are lunatics.