Aparently If something has under 2% of an animal product, it is still vegan
Personally I avoid ALL animal products
But is this true?
Or some one cheating?
2007-03-09 13:43:06 · 17 answers · asked by Halle? 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Example
Poptarts are still on the "Vegan list"
But they have slight gelitine in them
2007-03-09 13:50:00 · update #1
Please stop LECTURING ME!
I eat NO animal product, no matter HOW SMALL the portion is!
I was just wondring, JEEZE
2007-03-09 14:20:39 · update #2
No pizza? I wish someone had told me that vegans aren't allowed to have pizza, I've been eating vegan pizza for years!
Seriously, I used to think you needed cheese on pizza, until I tried it without. Pizza and cheese may have become synonymous, but when you start eating pizza with no cheese, you appreciate the rest of the toppings so much more.
For those who still miss the cheese, there are a few good vegan cheese substitutes out there that give you that melty stretchy gooey cheese pizza flavour.
And.. to the question about what vegans can eat (from a vegetarian, no less), what do YOU eat? If all you eat are animal products then I can see how there would be a problem, but surely you eat vegetables, grains, legumes, fruit, nuts and seeds anyway, so there you go. We can eat plenty besides rocks.
2007-03-09 14:47:49 · answer #1 · answered by Baggy 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hey,
If you are talking about the Peta vegan list, I believe only the non-frosted pop tarts. The gelatin is in the frosting.
To the best of my knowledge, PETA considers foods that are 99% (or maybe even 99.9%) pure to be vegan.
The foods included on the list are ones "made in facilities that produce......" or they are products that "may contain trace amount of...." These are intended to be allergen warnings on the side because if some people are even near certain oils, their allergies are severe enough they could die.
The reason Peta considered these products to be vegan is that they consider "animal suffering to be more important than personal purity."
They think vegans should speak with their wallets. If companies create these products, vegans should support and buy them to show that there is a market for such products. Also animals are not used for the products; it is just that trace amounts may have gotten into them. If vegans don't buy them, they will stop making them and will then make animal products instead.
I haven't personally heard of the 2% thing, but perhaps it is around those lines?
2007-03-09 14:20:47 · answer #2 · answered by Squirtle 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Thats just an excuse to be able to eat some processed foods. ANY animal products at all makes it not vegan.
2007-03-09 13:50:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes!it's defenitly cheating.Don't trust the PETA list research it because some of the stuff like lemonheads has beeswax which isn't vegan or vegetarian.Why people don't eat anything with honey?In the process of getting honey they kill the bees accidently to get the beehive which has the honey.
2007-03-10 13:07:43 · answer #4 · answered by lilyoungin979 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The rule isn't "2%", it's "may contain trace amounts of".
If ANY amount of animal product is added to something, it's no longer vegan.
But if it's been made on the same machinery as something that contains animal products, it's fine as long as the animal product isn't an actual ingredient.
2007-03-09 14:27:55 · answer #5 · answered by PsychoCola 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
NO that would be by definition NOT VEGAN.
You said you avoid all animal products, that's great, keep it that way, and don't let anyone tell you that any percent of animal anything is ok, it's not.
Your either pregnant or your not, and your either Vegan, or your not. there's no "kinda" Vegan, there's no "almost" pregnant.
2007-03-10 04:30:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Only frosted pop tarts have gelatin in them. Regardless of that, if a product has any animal products in it all, it's not vegan.
2007-03-11 07:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by KathyS 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of any "2%" rule.
Or "1%." Or...
If that was widely applied, I'm sure I would've been eating those irritating Campbell's soups with "chicken fat" as the 2nd-last ingredient for the last thirty years instead of sighing after scanning the label and putting it back...
Where'd you hear this?
2007-03-10 00:46:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The gelatin is in the frosting... Make sure you get non-frosted pop tarts...
Otherwise, if there is an animal product in it... Then it is not Vegan.
2007-03-09 14:05:20 · answer #9 · answered by sassy_cheesesicle 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is cheating to have any animal products. If you do, just call yourself vegetarian. I don't think gelatin is still made with animal products, I think it is sometimes completely synthetic (which I wouldn't be surprised about given that poptarts taste 100% synthetic). I wouldn't quote me on that, though.
2007-03-09 13:54:58 · answer #10 · answered by erinn83bis 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋