Vegan's petition against new £5 note containing animal fat
A petition to ban the new £5 notes which contain animal fat has reached nearly 130,000 signatures.
The petition was started by Doug Maw, who's been a vegan for 20 years who wants the new £5 notes to be withdrawn because they contain small amounts of tallow.
The Australian inventor of the notes has described the complaints as 'stupid'. Professor David Solomon, who developed the first polymer bank note in circulation in Australia in 1988, said the new £5 notes contain trivial amounts of tallow, a substance made from animal fat.
We were joined by Doug this morning to find out more about his petition.
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