Tucker Blue
Well-Known Member
There are a many misconceptions about what being vegan actually is. Let me clarify for you.
If you only eat a non animal product diet, you are not vegan. If you spend any money at all on animal based products you are not vegan.
Vegans do not support any animal reliant products. No leather, no wool, no fur, no horn, no animal gelatin, no bone char filtered sugar, no unsustainable palm oils, etc. Vegans do not eat name brand organic food, name brand food with organic ingredients or 99.9% of organic crops***. Organic crops are grown in poo. Horse poo, cow poo, goat poo, it's all poo. Do you think the poo comes from wild animals? Do you think workers wander the wild in search of poo? No. It comes from caged animals. Caged animals. So once again, organic is not vegan. Here's the one that nearly every single pet owner forgets. All name brand pet food has animal based ingredients. If you spend your money on any animal based products you are not vegan. That includes leather seats in your car. Yep. We think of everything.
It is extremely difficult to be vegan. i am one, i should know. i call so many companies to ask about their products it's annoyingly time consuming.
***Yes i am aware of "green manure". However these fertilizers are extremely expensive and are not used by name brand companies. They are trying to squeeze every cent of profit from their product, "green manure" is just too expensive. It's mostly used in smaller specialty product companies. You know, the ones that charge 3 times as much for their products and are commonly unknown.
If any part of this is unclear or if you have any questions, feel free to ask. This is a topic that still needs much more discussion in the world as veganism has only flourished in the last few decades.
On a very important side note, "Not tested on animals" products are not necessarily vegan. When you see advertising slogans like that be wary. It means literally and only that, not "tested" on animals. it does not however imply that no animal based ingredients or ingredients derived from non animal processes were used in the making of the product.
For instance, Oreo cookies are widely considered vegan because no dairy products are used in the manufacturing. Not only has Nabisco made public statements that their Oreo cookies are not vegan, they use organic ingredients. Yet people still believe they are vegan. Let me assure you, Oreo cookies use an organic sugar named Puresource Certified Organic Sugar. And as you just learned, organic is not vegan. Oh yeah kiddies, daddy did his homework.
If you only eat a non animal product diet, you are not vegan. If you spend any money at all on animal based products you are not vegan.
Vegans do not support any animal reliant products. No leather, no wool, no fur, no horn, no animal gelatin, no bone char filtered sugar, no unsustainable palm oils, etc. Vegans do not eat name brand organic food, name brand food with organic ingredients or 99.9% of organic crops***. Organic crops are grown in poo. Horse poo, cow poo, goat poo, it's all poo. Do you think the poo comes from wild animals? Do you think workers wander the wild in search of poo? No. It comes from caged animals. Caged animals. So once again, organic is not vegan. Here's the one that nearly every single pet owner forgets. All name brand pet food has animal based ingredients. If you spend your money on any animal based products you are not vegan. That includes leather seats in your car. Yep. We think of everything.
It is extremely difficult to be vegan. i am one, i should know. i call so many companies to ask about their products it's annoyingly time consuming.
***Yes i am aware of "green manure". However these fertilizers are extremely expensive and are not used by name brand companies. They are trying to squeeze every cent of profit from their product, "green manure" is just too expensive. It's mostly used in smaller specialty product companies. You know, the ones that charge 3 times as much for their products and are commonly unknown.
If any part of this is unclear or if you have any questions, feel free to ask. This is a topic that still needs much more discussion in the world as veganism has only flourished in the last few decades.
On a very important side note, "Not tested on animals" products are not necessarily vegan. When you see advertising slogans like that be wary. It means literally and only that, not "tested" on animals. it does not however imply that no animal based ingredients or ingredients derived from non animal processes were used in the making of the product.
For instance, Oreo cookies are widely considered vegan because no dairy products are used in the manufacturing. Not only has Nabisco made public statements that their Oreo cookies are not vegan, they use organic ingredients. Yet people still believe they are vegan. Let me assure you, Oreo cookies use an organic sugar named Puresource Certified Organic Sugar. And as you just learned, organic is not vegan. Oh yeah kiddies, daddy did his homework.
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