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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
Chelmsford |
Over one third of products in the UK labelled as vegan contain animal products according to a new scientific report. The reason is blamed on the fact that no legal definition of vegan food has been agreed by producers and authorities. So a manufacturer can call it's produce vegan even when it has animal products in it. In short, vegans have been fooled and have lied to and there's not a damn thing they an do about it. What's going on here. It's all over the news |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How do vegans feel about eating food grown with fertilisers containing things like blood & bone, chicken feather meal, fish, and other by-products or in soils where there are animals like insects and others living and dying? The backbone of sustainable organic "circle of life" farming. Those nutrients are being directly incorporated into the food being consumed. When we get preached to and accosted by the vocal minority crusader types that question stumps them immediately.
Anyone can choose to consume the diet they feel fits best with their personal convictions and we support that personal choice 10000000%!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This thread sounds like a reason to bash on vegans for no reason. How about let people live their lives according to how they want and their own preferences as long as they aren't hurting anyone. Novel concept, I know but might just allow some people to get a fucking grip |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was a vegan many years ago. Way before there were plant based options everywhere. It was this mindset that eventually made me Jack it all in after 8 years. I just thought it's like trying to hold back the tide. However, in that time animal testing on cosmetics ended, fox hunting was made illegal (yes, we know you rich scumbag cunts still do it though) and Animal fats and gelatine were removed from everyday food items like biscuits and sweets. If people genuinely want to be "the difference in the world that they want to see" then good for them. I find those pricks that bang on about being vegan whilst eating a mackky Ds bean burger. |
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By *ee04Man
over a year ago
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I’d good is being sold as vegan. This by definition should be food containing no animal products, (noun
a person who does not eat any food derived from animals and who typically does not use other animal products).
If it contains animal products. Then surely it contravenes the trade descriptions act 2011.
I am not a vegan or vegetarian. However I respect others right to choose for themselves.
I feel I’d this is a loophole in the law it needs to be closed. Just look at the Hue and Cry over the horse meat scandal. I mean people will quite happily eat Ermentrude but object to eating Mr Ed.
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"This thread sounds like a reason to bash on vegans for no reason. How about let people live their lives according to how they want and their own preferences as long as they aren't hurting anyone. Novel concept, I know but might just allow some people to get a fucking grip "
It may well turn into that but I think the OP was saying more about the fact that there is no legal standard at present and as a consequence people who wish to choose vegan products are being shafted with little redress.
I am not a vegan myself but would be pretty hacked off if I were and found I had been inadvertently purchasing products that I believed in good faith were compatible with my lifestyle choice, only to find it was not the case. |
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"This thread sounds like a reason to bash on vegans for no reason. How about let people live their lives according to how they want and their own preferences as long as they aren't hurting anyone. Novel concept, I know but might just allow some people to get a fucking grip
It may well turn into that but I think the OP was saying more about the fact that there is no legal standard at present and as a consequence people who wish to choose vegan products are being shafted with little redress.
I am not a vegan myself but would be pretty hacked off if I were and found I had been inadvertently purchasing products that I believed in good faith were compatible with my lifestyle choice, only to find it was not the case. "
There doesn’t need to be a ‘legal standard’. If it contains animal derived food stuffs then it’s not vegan. If it contains things not listed on the label then it’s also putting people with allergies who buy vegan options to avoid diary and eggs at serious risk. |
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"I’d good is being sold as vegan. This by definition should be food containing no animal products, (noun
a person who does not eat any food derived from animals and who typically does not use other animal products).
If it contains animal products. Then surely it contravenes the trade descriptions act 2011.
I am not a vegan or vegetarian. However I respect others right to choose for themselves.
I feel I’d this is a loophole in the law it needs to be closed. Just look at the Hue and Cry over the horse meat scandal. I mean people will quite happily eat Ermentrude but object to eating Mr Ed.
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As an aside, we once had a pet chicken called Ermintrude  |
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It is morally repugnant that people have been deceived on such as alarming level. If nothing else, it highlights the extent to which food producers, at a minimum, should not be trusted to self-regulate. It highlights too, the wrongs of shrinking the state, such as during austerity, for ideological reasons.
Whenever you hear of 'cutting red tape', you can be certain that standards will plummet, to the detriment of the ordinary person.
Where food is not even labelled vegetarian but instead 'vegan', it should not contain any material that is of animal origin. It is sickening that so many people have been deceived to such an extraordinary extent. |
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People should be able to figure out what they eat and have it be what they want.
