Ahdb advert vegan complaints

[roscoe erf]

Ad watchdog scrutinises AHDB adverts after vegan complaints

The UK's advertisement watchdog is looking into claims by the Vegan Society that recent meat and dairy adverts were misleading the public.

www.farminguk.com

have posted this in w.t.f as this is really beyond

 

[vantage]

Ad watchdog scrutinises AHDB adverts after vegan complaints

The UK's advertisement watchdog is looking into claims by the Vegan Society that recent meat and dairy adverts were misleading the public.

www.farminguk.com

have posted this in w.t.f as this is really beyond

There should be a F.O. thread!

 

[roscoe erf]

There should be a F.O. thread!

that depends who your telling to f.o

 

[vantage]

that depends who your telling to f.o

A Vegan……Obviously!

 

[betweenthelines]

The complaint is short on facts, it's more a list of "we don't like this advert because..................."

There is nothing factually incorrect about the adverts.

BTW, being vegan is not a legally protected characteristic like age, race etc. so it's perfectly legal to discriminate against vegans if you wish to do so.

 

[primmiemoo]

Ha! The advert is accused of sending the wrong message to people who are considering a plahhhhhnt based diet

Vegan Soc can't cope with honesty and real life?

There was an advert aired by some foreign variety of vegan charity earlier this year which caused a young person within my orbit genuine upset. Very angled to blood and gore, and making it appear that newborn goats are slaughtered for meat. The young person obviously knows better, but was shocked by the lies on screen.

 

[Highland Mule]

BTW, being vegan is not a legally protected characteristic like age, race etc. so it's perfectly legal to discriminate against vegans if you wish to do so.

That is open to some debate, I'm afraid. Apparently there was a case that ruled the opposite, for certain circumstances, in a minor court.

Is veganism a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010?

Is veganism a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010?

www.fcsa.org.uk

 

[Muck Spreader]

To me Veganism apart from being correlated with some mental disorders seems to be a movable feast. It's OK to have the covid vaccine, although animals are used in its development as are other pharmaceuticals. The killing of animals and insects that damage or contaminate foods is also OK, but the wearing of silk or use of honey made by insects is not. Vegans are happy to endorse predator species killing other animals, but not humans doing the same or their cats and dogs.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

"According to the (Vegan) society, livestock are 'routinely fed with vitamin B12 supplemented feed, equivalent to supplementing a vegan diet'.

Why would we? Ruminants can make it themselves, unless they refer only to chickens and pigs?

 

[betweenthelines]

That is open to some debate, I'm afraid. Apparently there was a case that ruled the opposite, for certain circumstances, in a minor court.

Is veganism a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010?

Is veganism a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010?

www.fcsa.org.uk

It isn't. And it's not open to debate either. Protected Characteristics are listed on HM Gov. Employment website and the Equality Commission website. Veganism is not a Religion either.

 

[Highland Mule]

It isn't. And it's not open to debate either. Protected Characteristics are listed on HM Gov. Employment website and the Equality Commission website. Veganism is not a Religion either.

Did you read the article? A court found that “ethical veganism” was a belief and could be protected.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

It was an employment tribunal. IIRC, precedent cannot be set at an employment tribunal so each case that rests on some vegan claiming that X, Y or Z infringed his/her protected characteristics would have to be decided on its own merits.

 

[Highland Mule]

It was an employment tribunal. IIRC, precedent cannot be set at an employment tribunal so each case that rests on some vegan claiming that X, Y or Z infringed his/her protected characteristics would have to be decided on its own merits.

Yes, it was a minor court and probably doesn’t have precedence , but it’s still a worrying ruling.

 

[roscoe erf]

 

[Sandpit Farm]

There were over 500 complaints being investigated apparently. All were defended by AHDB and successfully dismissed.

 

[davidroberts30]

I got some vegan sausage

 

[roscoe erf]

I got some vegan sausage

If you filled them yourself I’d see a doctor