Waitrose “Weekend Magazine” promoting Veganism.

[Pilatus]

I have just glanced through this weeks,
Waitrose “Weekend Magazine,and yet again it is biased towards and promoting Veganism by including only a few recipes/meals with meat in them.
On the second page it is also promoting Kate Winslets pro vegan film.
I get the impression they are promoting Veganism a lot more than meat from British farmers,an appalling state of affairs.

 

[vantage]

I have just glanced through this weeks,
Waitrose “Weekend Magazine,and yet again it is biased towards and promoting Veganism by including only a few recipes/meals with meat in them.
On the second page it is also promoting Kate Winslets pro vegan film.
I get the impression they are promoting Veganism a lot more than meat from British farmers,an appalling state of affairs.

Can’t be doing them much good, the John Lewis group is shrinking.

 

[Highashgrange]

I have just glanced through this weeks,
Waitrose “Weekend Magazine,and yet again it is biased towards and promoting Veganism by including only a few recipes/meals with meat in them.
On the second page it is also promoting Kate Winslets pro vegan film.
I get the impression they are promoting Veganism a lot more than meat from British farmers,an appalling state of affairs.

A friend of mine with a farming background left Waitrose because of their vegan slant. He says their ultimate vision is a vegan society. He was earning very good money as well.

 

[Pilatus]

Waitrose seem as biased towards Vegans and Veganism as the BBC is . No doubt a lot of BBC, TV Folk,shop at Waitrose as some are featured in the Waitrose “Weekend Magazine”.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Another own goal for the John Lewis Partnership plc, pi$$ing off yet more of it's customer base. At the rate the company is going they'll be calling in the administrators within five years.

 

[Yale]

Miffed me watching ‘The Cleaner’ on BBC last night,I know it was comedy however repeating the inaccuracies of cows farting doesn’t help.

 

[organic]

Shelves seemed full of Vegan stuff in Abergavenny Waitrose last Thursday. Which might suggest they are not selling it.

Not too much Welsh Lamb on the shelves, hardly any organic perhaps because it's on offer and virtually sold out?

Rump steaks on offer at £2.50 for 230 grams. Looked good value to me.

Short of cat food as well. Most important. But why is it made in Holland as opposed to the UK?

 

[Jimdog1]

Waitrose seem as biased towards Vegans and Veganism as the BBC is . No doubt a lot of BBC, TV Folk,shop at Waitrose as some are featured in the Waitrose “Weekend Magazine”.

Dalehead foods, Dovecote park and Stonegate may beg to differ.

 

[JMcA]

I attend the Waitrose farming meetings and can confirm there isn't a strategy for trying to create a vegan society. The magazine editor is simply trying to appeal to people willing to try some vegan meals. Whether we like it or not, there are quite a few people giving it a go on or two days a week.

Hopefully the recipes are dreadful!

 

[Pilatus]

I attend the Waitrose farming meetings and can confirm there isn't a strategy for trying to create a vegan society. The magazine editor is simply trying to appeal to people willing to try some vegan meals. Whether we like it or not, there are quite a few people giving it a go on or two days a week.

Hopefully the recipes are dreadful!

Thanks for that , I hope you are correct.
It is the way that there seems to be “no balance” between, vegan recipes/ meals, and conventional recipes/meals that contain meat, in the editorial of the Waitrose Weekend Paper and the Waitrose Health Magazine. That is my reason to say Waitrose seem to bias towards Veganism and Vegans.

 

[wrenbird]

They publish what they believe will hook people in, if market research tells them this is what their customers want to see, this is what they will publish.

 

[Steevo]

We all know such things, like cooking shows on tv are aspirational and nobody actually cooks the meals anyway!

 

[Pilatus]

They publish what they believe will hook people in, if market research tells them this is what their customers want to see, this is what they will publish.

Same old story “follow the money”, in this case I expect there is bigger profit margin in vegan recipe /meals, ingredients.

We all know such things, like cooking shows on tv are aspirational and nobody actually cooks the meals anyway!

Exactly ,I expect many viewers would have a job to boil an egg yet alone make a nice beef stew.
Why a “bake off” , you can’t live on cakes

 

[sidjon]

Why a “bake off” , you can’t live on cakes

Are you sure , as most of the family seem to try too

 

[T Hectares]

I had to contact milk and more to question them on the sources of these extravagant claims, Yep all sourced from the Soil associations website, really misleading and lazing advertising while putting down their own conventional farmers
Retailers will do whatever they need to if they can increase sales, next month they will be extolling the virtues of something else…

 

[Bogweevil]

Shelves seemed full of Vegan stuff in Abergavenny Waitrose last Thursday. Which might suggest they are not selling it.

Not too much Welsh Lamb on the shelves, hardly any organic perhaps because it's on offer and virtually sold out?

Rump steaks on offer at £2.50 for 230 grams. Looked good value to me.

Short of cat food as well. Most important. But why is it made in Holland as opposed to the UK?

Loads of organic Duchy lam b in my waitrose. Much Welsh lamb and Scottish beef, oodles of red tractor pork, wide edition of UK poultry, all RT bacon, vegan stuff one small shelf.

Down the road in asda all danish pork and bacon, Irish beef, n z lamb...

 

[Wilksy]

My Daughter came home one day this week saying the deputy head did an assembly on becoming vegan, or if you can’t manage full vegan try to eat locally produced meat, don’t think he’s quite grasped veganism, made me mad though, I don’t see how it’s in his remit to preach these things

 

[warksfarmer]

I attend the Waitrose farming meetings and can confirm there isn't a strategy for trying to create a vegan society. The magazine editor is simply trying to appeal to people willing to try some vegan meals. Whether we like it or not, there are quite a few people giving it a go on or two days a week.

Hopefully the recipes are dreadful!

So you think the senior management reveal the companies long term plan at farmer attended meetings

 

[matthew]

Their magazine used to be readable. Now it's 90 per cent greenwash.
I don't even pick it up any more - and it's free.

 

[Steevo]

Happened to be in Waitrose today, saw this sign outside and so took a picture to add to this thread.