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Subject: RE: Animal fat in notes
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:04:08 +0000
From: enquiries@bankofengland.co.uk
To: roger

Dear Mr Lovejoy

Thank you for providing us with your views. The Bank is launching a full consultation on 30 March to seek further opinion on the use of animal–derived products and plant-based alternatives before making any decisions on the polymer used in future production runs of £5 and £10 polymer notes and the new £20 polymer note.

We would welcome your contribution through that consultation. You may also be interested in the additional assessment information that we published on 15 February:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/other/polymerassessment.pdf

Kind regards

Public Enquiries Group
Bank of England

Dear Bank

I am wondering how I may contribute to the consultation or more properly discuss, argumentatively with the issues raised the polymerassessment.pdf

Thank you

Roger Lovejoy

Bank is considering palm oil for £20 note and has produced a report on the environmental impact of tallow, coconut and palm oil

Questions are
1. Why is the saturated fat necessary
2. How much did the tallow cost and what is the preliminary cost of palm and coconut,
3. As the polymer is petrol chemical why not use a petrol chemical oil, and is there a cost issue.

What is tallow?

Tallow is a hard, fatty substance made from rendered animal fat. It is commonly used to make soap and candle.

The new polymer note uses beef tallow made from suet, which is hard fat found around the animal’s kidneys, stomach and other organs.

. . . Tallow can be found in a variety of everyday products including: plastic bags, make up (including lipstick, foundations and eye makeup), crayons, bike tyres, candles

. . . This allows the note to be lubricated and to ensure it is smooth inside your wallet. Innovia, the company that makes the new £5, said that the additive was used to five the £5 their “unique” anti-static and anti=slip properties. The amount of tallow used is substantially less than 1 per cent, The Independent reported.
thesun.co.uk . . ./tallow . . . five-5-pound-notes/

The future composition of polymer banknotes — a consultation paper
27 March 2017
How to respond to this consultation
Responses should be submitted using the online form available at
www.bankofengland.co.uk/polymeradditivesconsultation.
This consultation will close at 23:00 BST on
12 May 2017.

Hi

I never got around to adding to the consultation largely due to the depth of my troubles with the issue.

I am hoping that in future you will find alternatives and, in the cases of the £5 and £10 notes already produced, any updated versions that are animal product free will have different images so they can be easily identifiable.

I have already stopped accepting the new £5 notes, will not use the £10 notes when around. In fact I am so disgusted with the idea that all persons handling such notes now will have animal tainted hands by passing the fat around.

I suppose if the Bank of England cares so little, what am I thinking, the bank is not interested in abuse just in making money. So really I should give up using hard currency that passes through the hands of butchers' friends.

Funny as I always hated plastic cards and liked hard cash, but change does happen although it is harder to handle when there is little choice.

Transactions without cash seem to be the only option if even the Bank of England have no qualms about forcing the fat of dead animals into consumer hands.

All the best, hope this new venture into the fat of the land is worth the mint.

Roger Lovejoy