Cheese v Cheeze

Today was grocery shopping day .... I spared you all the back room deals and the begging and bartering which were the weekly ordeal of planning a week's meals..and cut straight to the shopping!
Vegans with 7 cats do find themselves in some strange places - I had to go to Pets at Home to get some raw meat for the VegaNation cats as we like to give them raw food as much as possible.
Pets at Home are a funny old mixture as they appear to be very supportive of adoption from shelters and they do nice things like donating some bags of hen food to a lovely charity called Little Hen Rescue which our family has volunteered at and letting volunteers from  Feline Care (where our beloved 18-yrs young Smokey came from!) shake a tin in their recent fundraising drive to raise £70,000 to secure their premises and future.
Also the staff there appear tremendously knowledgeable and I have overheard them explaining a variety of different animals' needs to customers in a very thorough and capable way. BUT, and this is a big BUT, they sell animals and I think this is wrong.

The panoply of cows' breastmilk cheeses on offer to veggies and omnis at an average supermarket ...

I don't know where they get their animals from but while there are so many animals languishing in shelters for want of a good home it seems irresponsible to be selling animals to people who could have been encouraged to buy their pet food from Pets at Home but adopt a pet from a shelter...It is a particular shame that they are selling reptiles in their shops as estimates based on the US pet industry (thank you Animal Aid) suggest that the majority of reptiles purchased are dead within a year of their purchase....which is totally leaving aside the  issue about selling animals as though they were things rather than beings..
So I haven't really solved that dilemma...where a vegan should buy meat???

Where did the b****y chill cabinet go?

After that I had to go to Holland and Barrett to buy Cheezley soy cheese as Tesco hadn't  had it last week and we want enchiladas again.
But unbelievably when I got there they had refitted the shop and their chill cabinet had gone."$%%££%^$"!*&%...I am so fed up.. I spoke to a member of staff about it (the lovely Elly) who explained that when re-vamping a shop H and B analyse all areas of the shop and if an area has not been generating enough profit than it has to go...which leaves vegans wanting Redwood cheeze products, Tofutti cream cheezes etc a bit stuck..OMG can't get Redwood Rashers anymore...I just think that running a shop is a balance (we run one!: VegaNation !) between making a profit (of course! we have 3 children, 7 cats and 2 mice to feed!) and providing a service. So some things in our shop are big sellers, for instance marshmallows , while some will be more occasional purchases such as a humane mousetrap but when someone needs a humane trap, they really need one and while eating lots of brilliant vegan marshies will improve most situations it won't catch your mouse...unless you use them as bait..!

The choice of cheeze available to vegans SOMEtimes at SOME supermarkets...

Holland and Barrett may not sell as many vegan cheeses as it sells packets of walnuts, for instance, but to the people who go there to buy vegan cheeses it makes an enormous difference to suddenly have that opportunity withdrawn. H and B used to have a freezer too and I used to take my children there and be able to buy them a vegan ice creem cone but that has long gone and this is a further backwards step emphasising that Holland and Barrett are far more interested in making a profit than in providing a service to their many vegan customers.
It was a less permanent drought when Tesco didn't have the cheeze either but with Holland and Barrett no longer stocking it at all it will now be even more of a piss-off when Tesco doesn't have it....and yet people who eat cheese made from the breastmilk of cows can't even imagine walking into a supermarket and discovering the shelves are bare of cheese and they can't have any today...