suprisingly vegan (or not vegan) things
Posted by Sea_of_Green on Apr 18, 2008 · Member since Feb 2008 · 2515 posts
so, my sister just gave me a bunch of small stuff of hers b/c she's trying to clean out her house, and among them was this little heart tin of altoids with heart mints, so i was like how cute, yeah yeah i want it, and then later i looked at the ingredients, and they have gelatin in them :/
what are some things you have discovered to your surprise are vegan? orr not vegan?
Yeah, I was halfway through a bag of Salsa doritos once before I looked at the ingredients and saw it had chicken in it.
I was researching making my own organic fertilizer and found that most of the organic fertilizer recipes call for bone meal Rock phosphate can be substituted for the bone meal but I wonder how many commercial organic farmers bother to make it vegan. Depending on how far you want to take it, organic vegetables may not be vegan! :'(
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/03/HOGC7J5DA21.DTL
http://www.sierraclub.org/e-files/fertilizer.asp
http://www.the-organic-gardener.com/organic-fertilizer.html
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/nyerges44.html This one seems to have the best ideas! I'll have to make sure DH puts the rabbit droppings around our tomato plants).
regarding general mills cereals:
"Dear Valued Consumer:
Thank you for contacting General Mills about Fruity Cheerios cereal.
The vitamin D in our products are naturally produced from lanolin, which comes from wool. We appreciate the time you have taken to share your comments.
We hope you will continue to choose our products.
Sincerely,
Emily Quintaine"
It might be natural but it still comes from HAIR. blegh.
regarding general mills cereals:
"Dear Valued Consumer:
Thank you for contacting General Mills about Fruity Cheerios cereal.
The vitamin D in our products are naturally produced from lanolin, which comes from wool. We appreciate the time you have taken to share your comments.
We hope you will continue to choose our products.
Sincerely,
Emily Quintaine"
It might be natural but it still comes from HAIR. blegh.
Boo. :boooo:
I'm beginning to wonder if there is such a thing as a vegan processed food anymore. I just noticed one of the sauces I used yesterday had anchovy paste in it. It's a sauce I have used for many years and thought I read the label already way back when. Sigh..........Guess for this kind of stuff I'm going to look for the Vegan symbol or the word "vegan" somewhere, and if not, I'll be very vary.
I did eat some Oreos at todays meeting at work, damn you people.
Bad news people. There is a thread about the sweet and spicy chili doritos on the ppk. Someone called the doritos 1-800 number to ask about the natural flavorings listed on the ingredients. The person there said that if the bag is not listed as kosher then the natural flavorings are either beef or pork based. >:(
http://www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=56679
oh thank god! now i can't get addicted to them! :P
I was researching making my own organic fertilizer and found that most of the organic fertilizer recipes call for bone meal Rock phosphate can be substituted for the bone meal but I wonder how many commercial organic farmers bother to make it vegan. Depending on how far you want to take it, organic vegetables may not be vegan! :'(
yep! mine aren't! my farm uses blood and bone meal from the slaughterhouse. blech! but it's one of those things that you basically can NOT avoid. this is why i will be growing my own food someday.
Bad news people. There is a thread about the sweet and spicy chili doritos on the ppk. Someone called the doritos 1-800 number to ask about the natural flavorings listed on the ingredients. The person there said that if the bag is not listed as kosher then the natural flavorings are either beef or pork based. >:(
http://www.postpunkkitchen.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=56679
OH F**K!!!! :-\
Peta doesnt consider all questionable derivatives when they list it on their accidentally vegan list.
But about the vitamin D
I contacted Kelloggs about their cereals, this is what i got back...
Thank you for contacting us regarding the source of our vitamins.
The vitamin premixes used in Kellogg's® products include Vitamin D.
Our ingredient specification for Vitamin D says that we can use either
Vitamin D2 or D3 in our products, but we are not able to determine which
one specifically is used for any of our cereal products. If you only
want products with ingredients not derived from animal sources, any
cereal that is fortified with vitamin D would not be acceptable. In
addition, some people are allergic to lanolin and thus could not consume any of
our cereals that contain vitamin D.
The following cereals are NOT fortified with vitamin D:
Special K® Protein Plus
Special K® Red Berries
Mini-Wheats®: all varieties
We appreciate your interest in our company and products.
Sincerely,
Pablo A. Martinez
Consumer Affairs Department
My husband used to be a serious cereal addict. A while after going vegan we decided it was just too annoying to try to find a cereal (plus, they are all so expensive!), so we haven't bought cereal in..months. He's very happy eating oatmeal every day, and he never thought he would be able to go WITHOUT cereal! We really don't buy any processed foods anymore (unless organic chips/popcorn count?), just b/c it's so difficult to know what's in everything (+ expensive, + not healthy). You just have to give yourself some time to adapt!
*I'm not saying that everyone should stop buying cereal...but that's been our experience!
Nutter butters and oreos, huh? Except for the white sugar :(
It really is hard to exclude all things that harmed animals from your diet, as one of the other posters said. Although, I didn't know about filtering water through animal products. Eeeeewww...
I have often wished the world wasn't set up around the exploitation of animals--it's really sad.
I have often wished the world wasn't set up around the exploitation of animals--it's really sad.
i think we all have, and hopefully on day that will be so...
we need a veg*n president!
we need a veg*n president!
or just be anarchists.
"non-dairy" creamer
ok that second list could be a lot longer, but i'll leave the rest up to you...
I know! I was inspecting this non-dairy creamer for entertainment's sake, reading the ingredients list and everything, and at the very bottom it said "contains milk"
what?
I know. So dumb.
Uncle Ben's instant (microwavable) vegetable pilau rice... contains lactose. No other dairy, just lactose. WTF - why?? ???
Also, the 'moroccan carrot salad' which is on special this week in my store's deli..... contains chicken extract in the flavourings. GRRR!!! You'd assume it was vegetarian. I only found out when I was packing someone's groceries, got nosey and read the label. How I wish they were obliged to list salads (damnit; all products!) as vegetarian or not. But alas, we live in a sad, veg-hostile world. *pout*
It is irritating that supposed veg*n products like salad of all things aren't veg*n. Then again, there's no guarantee that the veggies we eat weren't fertilized with dead animal fertilizer. I think Earthbound organic salads are grown this way. (Don't quote me on that, but I think I wrote them several years ago and they said it was true. If not them then another organic lettuce grower used fish meal in growing their products.)
I have this book called 'Survival into the 21st Century", and in it is a bunch of different levels of 'healthy' diets. The most extreme one is called 'breatharianism', which is, well, what it sounds like. It also seems to be the only way to be completely vegan, unless you shower or wash your clothes, anyway...
haha, now I have to keep from being trapped by this book again. Ok, back in the drawer :P
damn it! I ate like half a bag of those doritos...mine are NOT kosher, I just checked....grrrr! I'm freaking pissed right now. :( Oh well, I really shouldn't b!tch about it because after all, I'm in better shape than whatever cow or pig I ate. :(
I'm pretty sure Swedish Fish are vegan. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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