^ I wouldn't take it so seriously. The news.com.au website has a habit of using clickbait language in their articles. The "controversy" is a vegetarian pie winning a national pie contest (meat pies are the norm here). No-one would really care about it though, and the pies themselves sound like they'd taste really nice. Black seeds are also commonly used to decorate pies, with various patterns – I should know, I used to work in a couple of bakeries here.
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It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task.
– Virgil, The Aeneid (Book VI)