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Thank you for your review, I fully understand your disappointment with regards to the 'Vegan Tax', us too. As you know, we are not a high street chain with a huge budget and huge expenditure with suppliers that would enable us to amortise the cost of vegan products inline with the dairy alternatives. As a tiny independent business we just don't have the buying power of the larger chains. The meat and dairy industries are heavily subsidised, unlike alternative options. Another consideration we have is footfall. We are a small cafe in a rural town, so have less requests for alternatives than say, large or busy high street chains do. To give you some examples, vegan feta is some 233% more expensive than dairy feta. soy and oat milk calculates at 160% more expensive. We would love nothing more than to be able to provide the alternatives at the same price, its just not possible at this stage of our business. What we believe is really needed, is a lobby of MP's and government to reduce subsidies to meat and dairy industries, and assist small businesses to be able to compete with high street chains in offering alternatives without additional costs.