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I remember when I visited my friend in Cambridge (UK) we ate at a quite cool vegetarian restaurant. I was surpised at the time that they had a policy of not accepting 5 pound banknotes. Later I learned that this was a protest against the tallow content of those notes.

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/03/vegetarian-r...

This controversy is mentioned at the conclusion of the article

"This process of using fatty acids derived from animal fats has become headline news as different groups have protested against the use of animal products in the production of the new £5 note."

>rightly have problems with these replacing old paper notes.

Rightly?

Quite so if you hold cows sacred or are otherwise opposed to using animal products - I’m neither it’s not that different to McDonald’s not disclosing that their french fries contained beef flavouring. I’m neither and it can sound trivial, but a lot of people are and really care about this kind of thing.