Is this the start of the end for VW's iconic currywurst?
It was predictable, wasn't it?
Volkswagen began producing its own currywurst - a type of pork bratwurst/hot dog covered in spicy sauce - in 1973 as some sort of team building experiment designed to make employees feel like they were part of a family.
The idea took off and the company still produces around 18,000 sausages every day (6.5m a year), most of which are consumed by VW employees and customers, and occasionally sold externally at a limited number of restaurants and supermarkets.
It's a big deal, in a way, because Volkswagen technically makes more sausages than cars, and because they love their currywurst so much they gave it a part number as a "Volkswagen Original Part".
Meat eating isn't quite as popular these days. It's been decided that the cafeteria at the main plant in Wolfsburg will become fully vegetarian on August 20, meaning the traditional currywurst will no longer be available, replaced by vegetarian alternatives, as well as vegan alternatives with eggplant and jackfruit patties.
The sausage will still be available everywhere else including all the other cafeterias serving the massive complex of VW plants in Wolfsburg. But you know the drill: if it's been done once, it'll be done again.
VW workers have already fought to keep the sausage on the menu once before, back when VW decided to stop serving currywurst to the workers on the Golf assembly line. The employees complained with the union and VW eventually ended up reversing their original decision.
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Be vegetarian, be vegan, be a carnivore, eat whatever you like. Just don't assume you're somehow better than those who don't fancy the same diet as you. And don't force it upon others.
unfortunately that's what some people do these days. Personally I'm against... being against stuff. There's almost always middle ground to be found. I've tried vegan food, some of it was great, some of it was not so good. Same as non-vegan...
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It is all about control! They will guilt and shame you into their way of thinking at all costs, like you said your a monster if you think any other way. They are using the exact same tactics and language as gun control, except this is "meat control " it is just control or communism to me
VW workers crickets are coming to cafeterias near you!
VW WORKERS CRICKETS
That itchy red blanket of communism is creeping up to smother you to death.
I am not a Vegetarian myself, but I still do enjoy a Veggie Meal from Time to Time. But I definitely think that forcing People into it is kinda wrong.
they do it by taking the moral high ground "if you eat meat you're a monster and that's why I don't have to respect you", that's how some people think and feel and act
I still think it’s wrong.
As a vegetarian, I have to say that I think this is wrong. Nobody should be forced to eat vegan food. After all, I would be royally ticked off if someone tried to force me to eat meat! I don't think I'm better than anyone else, I'm just different. My fil has moved in with us, and I have actually begun to cook meat dishes for him (but I still won't eat them!). My job is to help keep him happy and healthy. I might succeed in keeping him healthy if I forced him to eat tofu, but he sure as hell wouldn't be happy! I believe that humans evolved to be omnivores - while there's nothing wrong with deciding to forgo meat, I think it is asinine to demand that OTHER people do so as well. Rant over, I'm going to sleep now. Good night!
So along with terminating the production of "normal", i.e. petrol- or diesel-powered cars, VW will also go vegan. Did they appoint Greta as their new CEO? Whatever, that leaves us with the question, who on Earth is going to buy their products? Greenpeace? The Green party? That's not going to be enough for the world's 2nd largest car manufacturer, I'm afraid.
30 years from now somebody will start saying "stop eating Tofu, you're endagering a rare species of bacteria that lives in Japan" and we'll be asked to eat... rocks or something. The world is losing its ****
Most probably I won't be around to witness it but I'm afraid you're right...